Book
How the people live: life in the passive regions (peasant life in southwestern Croatia, Bosnia, and Hercegovina, Yugoslavia in 1935)
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts • (21) • Published In 1981 • Pages: viii, 162 , plates
By: Bicanic, Rudolf, Halpern, Joel Martin, Despalatovic, Elinor Murray, Clissold, Stephen.
Abstract
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 brief descriptive ethnography of Croatian peasant culture and society as it existed in the period under study (i.e., 1935). Ethnographic topics given particular attention in this study are: hunger and water, agricultural production, land-holding, stock raising, markets and prices, clothing and clothing production, transportation and communications, debts and credit, standards of living, the dissolution of the ZADRUGA (extended family household), and the attitudes of the peasants to the GOSPODA (the Croatian elite). The document concludes with an analysis of this work by Joel M. Halpern, an American ethnologist. This section is entitled 'How the People Live -- a perspective on Bicanic's writings after a half century', pp. 146-162.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1997
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Economist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field Date
- 1935
- Coverage Date
- 1840s - 1930s
- Coverage Place
- southwest Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia; Croatia
- Notes
- by Rudolf Bicanic ; Stephen Clissold translation (1941) completed and substantially revised by Marijan Despalatovic ; Joel M. Halpern and Elinor Murray Despalatovic, editors
- Translation of: [Kako zivi narod; zivot u pasivnim krajevima]
- The original foreign text is not included
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 82146886
- LCSH
- Croats