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.
Subjects
Tillage
Water supply
Real property
Borrowing and lending
Standard of living
Classes
Social relationships and groups
culture
Croats
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