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The Jewish mother in Serbiaessay 1967 • Hammel, Eugene A.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
The article concerns itself with some familial role relationships and general qualities of behavior among Serbians. It is based on limited observations in Belgrad and some villages around Loznica and eastern Montenegro. 'The essay does not do justice...Serbo-Croatian kinship terminologyBook 1957 • Hammel, Eugene A.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a study of Serbian kinship terminology. The study includes semantic analysis of kinship terminology and discussion of related aspects of social organization. In using this study one should keep in mind that kinship terms may also include the ...Alternative social structures and ritual relations in the BalkansBook 1968 • Hammel, Eugene A.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
Hammel examines the institution of godparenthood (KUMSTVO), chiefly through the analysis of information on about 3700 godchildren, the data deriving from 69 genealogies collected in 15 villages scattered through Yugoslavia, with the majority of the c...The zadruga as processessay 1972 • Hammel, Eugene A.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a historical study, spanning the period of the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, dealing with the evolutionary development of the extended family household unit known as the ZADRUGA. The paper attempts to demonstrate that the combination...Serbian society in Karadjordje's Serbiaessay 1977 • Halpern, Joel Martin & Hammel, Eugene A.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This paper is a demographic reconstruction of the social structure of Serbian peasant society in the nineteenth society with particular emphasis on developmental changes in the household. Using tools borrowed from the demographic analysis of mid-twen...