essay

Demographic and social change in the village of Orasac: a perspective over two centuries

selected papers on a serbian village : social structure as reflected by history, demography and oral traditionAmherst, Mass. • Published In 1977 • Pages: 37-128

By: Halpern, Joel Martin.

Abstract
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 evaluate the kinds of changes taking place in Orasac but merely to present them as background against which demographic and social structural changes have been occurring. Thus the changes in birth, death and marriage rates and the sequence of household changes described in the text can be better understood when projected against the complex broader background (p. 42). A series of forty-six tables and fifty-three figures at the end of this work summarize in graphic form various aspects of Orasac demographic data discussed in this paper.
Subjects
Population
Composition of population
Sociocultural trends
Household
Family relationships
Kin relationships
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
late eighteenth century-1975
Coverage Place
Orasac Village, Serbia and Montenegro
Notes
by Joel M. Halpern
Includes bibliographical references (p. 74)
LCCN
sf80001606
LCSH
Serbs