Book

Being Muslim the Bosnian way: identity and community in a central Bosnian village

Princeton University PressPrinceton, New Jersey • Published In 1995 • Pages: xxi, 281

By: Bringa, Tone.

Abstract
This work deals primarily with the village of Dolina, Bringa's pseudonym for a mixed Muslim-Catholic community in central Bosnia which she studied in 1987-1988. This study presents '…a fascinating and persuasive account of how Muslim religion and ethnic identity was sustained and experienced in Bosnia prior to the collapse of the Yugoslav state and how the politics of gender and household inextricably shaped and constrained wider political and ethnoreligious identities' (p. xi). In the text Bringa discusses how family, marriage, and kinship networks emerge as the repository of social values in Bosnian Muslim society, and in the process how they mold wider political and social identities.
Subjects
Gender status
Mode of marriage
Nuptials
Household
Cult of the dead
General character of religion
Priesthood
culture
Bosnian Muslims
HRAF PubDate
1997
Region
Europe
Sub Region
Southeastern Europe
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 1996
Field Date
1987-1988
Coverage Date
ca. 1945-1993
Coverage Place
village of 'Dolina', central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Notes
Tone Bringa
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index
LCCN
95018059
LCSH
Bosnians