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A Serbian villageBook 1967 • Halpern, Joel Martin
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This work is a general study of the community of Orasac in the heart of traditional Old Serbia. Ethnographic coverage in this document is best on economic life, socio-political organization, the life cycle, the role and world view of Serbian peasants...Demographic and social change in the village of Orasacessay 1977 • Halpern, Joel Martin
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This study analyzes patterns of socio-cultural evolution in reference to household structure in the village of Orasac in central Serbia. The time focus of this paper is from the late eighteenth century to 1975. Halpern does not seek to define and eva...Joel Martin Halpern Collection 2009 • Halpern, Joel Martin
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This image collection was produced during more than half a century of research by Joel Martin Halpern and his former wife, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern, in the village of Orašac and its surrounding area in the central šumadija region of the now independe...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...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...How the people liveBook 1981 • Bicanic, Rudolf et al.
Croats • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In the fall of 1935, Rudolf Bicanic, a Croatian economist, traveled to southwest Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia to observe and study the life of the Croatian peasants of the region. This book, the result of his field work experiences, presents a b...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...