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Serbian society in Karadjordje's Serbia: an anthropological view

selected papers on a serbian village : social structure as reflected by history, demography and oral traditionAmherst, Mass. • Published In 1977 • Pages: 1-35

By: Halpern, Joel Martin, Hammel, Eugene A..

Abstract
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-twentieth century societies, the authors attempt to estimate the ecological and demographic parameters in force at the time of the First Revolt of Serbs against their Turkish rulers in 1804, and to see how social structures might have functioned in that setting (p. 2). Much of the demographic reconstruction contained in this work is based on the statistical analysis of various types of records such as the census of Orasac in 1863, brief data on household heads for the period of 1818-1831, the Ottoman lists from 1528 and other fourteenth century reports. In addition these records have been supplemented with data obtained from oral traditional histories.
Subjects
Demography
Traditional history
Household
Nuclear family
Extended families
Lineages
culture
Serbs
HRAF PubDate
1997
Region
Europe
Sub Region
Southeastern Europe
Document Type
essay
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 1996
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
ca.1750-ca.1863
Coverage Place
Orasac Village, Serbia and Montenegro
Notes
by Joel M. Halpern, E. A. Hammel
Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-35)
LCCN
sf80001606
LCSH
Serbs