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Healing with mother metaphorsessay 1989 • Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This article presents a study of Serbian ethnomedicine, including linguistic and semantic interpretations of oral charms and the phenomenology of healing rites. After spending over three decades among Serbian villagers, the author became accepted as ...Watch out for snakes!article 1983 • Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
A Serbian charm to heal snake bite is the focus of this article, discussed '…in the context of oral tradition, patterns of transmission of the charm, text misinterpretation, symbolism, and accurate interpretation' (p. 309). Although superficially the...The complementarity of women's ritual roles in a patriarchal societyessay 1986 • Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
According to Halpern there is a rich descriptive literature on ritual roles performed by women in various Balkan countries. In this work, by focusing on form and function in the carrying out of women's ritual roles in rural Serbia, Halpern believes t...Text and context in Serbian ritual lamentarticle 1981 • Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a study '…of ritual lament as part of the repertoire of oral genres in a contemporary 'traditional' oral culture, concern is with context as much as with text, with function, with how people communicate in a given social situation' (p. 52). T...Thoughts on communicative competence in a Serbian villageessay 1977 • Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
Based on Halpern's intermittent field work in Yugoslavia over the period of 1953-1971, this paper deals with various sociolinguistic features of Serbian village life, particularly in reference to the manner in which '…people intuitively respond verba...Genealogy as genreessay 1977 • Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
Heroic epics have long been studied by scholars as primary examples of oral literature in many south Slavic areas of Yugoslavia, and have been extensively analyzed as to linguisitc and structural content. This paper draws on this background of impres...Traditional recall and family historiesessay 1977 • Halpern, Barbara et al.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In this document the Halperns attempt to analyze the degree of reliability of recall of individuals in regard to their collective pasts. The authors examine the role of oral transmission in everyday life, then discuss how the values of the narrator m...'Udovica Jana'article 1976 • Foley, John Miles & Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
The EPSKE PESME are epic narratives which deal with historical and mythological subjects and represent one example of the rich variety of forms of oral traditional expression found in certain areas of Yugoslavia. An example of the EPSKE PESME, as pre...The zadrugaessay 1986 • Halpern, Joel Martin & Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a study of socio-cultural changes taking place in the ZADRUGA or extended family household from the nineteenth century to the early 1970s. Topics focus on the ZADRUGA throughout, dealing with such themes as historical background, internal str...1986 Perspectives on long-term researchessay 1986 • Halpern, Joel Martin & Halpern, Barbara
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This work describes some of the theoretical approaches to the long term study of single communities utilized by field researchers. Halpern discusses the community study approach, longitudinal studies in which the same population is followed over a pe...