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European MoslemsBook 1975 • Lockwood, William G.
Bosnian Muslims • Europe > Southeastern Europe
The importance of studying the articulation of the different parts of a complex society rather than concentrating on each part separately has long been recognized by anthropologists as a significant step in the overall understanding of that society. ...Bride theft and social maneuverability in western Bosniaarticle 1974 • Lockwood, William G.
Bosnian Muslims • Europe > Southeastern Europe
In this work Lockwood analyzes the relationship between social organization and alternative forms of marriage among rural Muslims of western Bosnia. The author presents the argument that elopment by being equated with actual bride theft, provides the...Living legacy of the Ottoman Empireessay 1979 • Lockwood, William G.
Bosnian Muslims • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This paper consists of two major parts, the first of which deals with the history and the second, with the ethnography (primarily social organization) of the Serbo-Croatian speaking Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the historical section Lockwood tr...Social status and cultural change in a Bosnian Moslem villagearticle 1975 • Lockwood, William G.
Bosnian Muslims • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This article is a study of the socio-economic factors affecting social change (modernization) in the peasant community of Planinica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the influence of the wealthy householders in initiating these changes. The document inc...The Bosnian Muslimsessay 1978 • Donia, Robert J. & Lockwood, William G.
Bosnian Muslims • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This article traces the political, social, economic, and cultural foundations of the Bosnian Muslims from the Ottoman period of 1463 to the 1960s. The authors believe that the emergence of the Bosnian Muslims as an important group in Bosnia-Herzegovi...