Abstract
Bride abduction (otmida) is an ancient and hallowed tradition among the South Slavs. There are many early ethnographic descriptions of it, perhaps the earliest being by Vuk Karadzih in 1818. No longer is it the common practice it once was. Still, it lives on, if not in actuality, then in ideology. And its role in the formation of social relations continues to be significant, at least in some more remote regions. It is the intent of this paper to examine the role, both in ideology and actuality, of bride abduction among Moslem Slavs living in an ethnically heterogeneous region of Western Bosnia. To provide a basis of comparison, we will more briefly survey the import of the same institution among their Serbian and Croatian neighbors.
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