Western Bosnia Research Articles

DIVERZITET, STRUKTURA I TEKSTURA PRAŠUME I GOSPODARSKE ŠUME BUKVE I JELE SA SMRČOM NA GRMEČU U ZAPADNOJ BOSNI

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 The research of the diversity, structure and texture was performed on the mountain Grmeè in western Bosnia, in the summer and fall of 2007, in the virgin forest and in the managed forest of beech and fir with spruce. For the research purposes, a systematic network of experimental circles within the distance of 1 x 1 km was installed in the managed forest. On the intersection of the squares network, 14 circular surfaces of 25 m radius were installed. All circular surfaces were placed in different sections. In the virgin forest a permanent experimental surface of size 100 x 100 m was set, with surface of 1 ha and one circular surface of radius 25 m, with surface of 1963 m2. The research determined the horizontal (opposing) and vertical structure, the diversity, the quality of the resources and the health of the virgin forest plus the managed forest. The texture was determined only for the virgin forest. The diversity of the tree types over the number of trunks in the virgin forest is 1,79, in the managed forest 1,78, over the basal; these indexes for the virgin forest are 1,24 and for the managed forest 1,64. The virgin forest has a poorer structure of tree resources compared to the managed forest, but is of better health. In the managed forest there are many trunks of suspicious health, as much as 35,8 %. The texture diversity in the virgin forest is 2,43.

Ethnobotanical survey of traditionally used plants in human therapy of east, north and north-east Bosnia and Herzegovina

The study aims to provide a systematical revision of the traditional use of wild and cultivated plants in north-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina (Western Balkan Peninsula; Southeast Europe). Thereby, it will extend and complement a recent previous study carried out in middle, southern and western Bosnia and Herzegovina. Information was collected by performing so called open ethnobotanical interviews. The following data were recorded and systematically assembled in a database: name, age and occupation of the interviewed person; the geographic locality and date of the interview; the name of the used plant; plant parts used; prescription background and preparation procedure as well as indication. Plants mentioned to be used by the informants were collected during field trips done together with the informants and taxonomically determined. The corresponding material was finally deposited in the herbarium of the Department of Pharmacognosy of the University of Vienna for the purpose of documentation. In total, 45 places including villages and mountain areas were visited and 84 persons questioned. 254 wild and cultivated species and 1655 different preparations for the use in traditional human therapy were recorded. The most frequently mentioned indications were disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system, urogenital tract, skin, blood system, cardiovascular system, nervous system as well as rheumatism. Infusions were the most frequently prepared formulation. Other applied preparations mentioned with decreasing frequency were decocts, sirups, tinctures, collars, direct application of plants without prior preparation, ointments, freshly pressed juices, oils, powders, fluid unctions, macerations and finally suppositories. Special preparations, typical only for the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina were "mehlems" and some kind of sirup called "đulbe šećer" (eng. đulbe sugar). While "mehlems" were already recognized and accordingly discussed for the central, southern and western parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, "đulbe šećer" seems to be known in north-eastern region only. The main compounds of this preparation are sugar or honey, lemon and flowers of one particular species of Rosa (with very small flowers), in Bosnia called "đulbe" rose or "sugar" rose. Prescriptions were verbally delivered for up to more than six generations, traditionally from mother to daughter. For the objective of further analyses and comparisons, the recorded data were inserted in the "VOLKSMED" data base of Austrian prescriptions. The study showed that there exist considerable similarities in medicinal plant use including indications and type of preparations between the different regions and ethnicities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Interestingly, there were also only little differences in frequencies of medicinal plant use, indications and preparations between middle, western and southern part Bosnia and Herzegovina on one hand and the eastern, northern and north-eastern part of this county on the other hand. The results also demonstrated the high importance of medicinal plants for the physical health of Bosnian people. 70 of the species reported by Bosnian people were also used in official pharmacy. In addition, a variety of less known plants has been used since ages in traditional therapy of this country and hence may be potential sources for new therapies. Therefore, further pharmaceutical research into this particular and scientifically still underexplored proportion of Bosnian plant biodiversity appears promising and is recommended by the authors.

Mapping soil magnetic properties in Bosnia and Herzegovina for landmine clearance operations

Electromagnetic properties of soils have negative impacts on metal detector performance during landmine clearance operations. In particular, topsoils with high concentrations of pedogenic viscous superparamagnetic minerals (magnetite/maghemite) as shown by high values of magnetic susceptibility and frequency dependent susceptibility limit the detector capability of identifying buried landmines. Thus a priori knowledge of the spatial extent of soils that may be problematic for landmine detection would aid strategic planning of clearance operations and ensure appropriate equipment is deployed. Here, we compare two approaches for estimating the broad magnetic properties of soils in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1) an analogue approach, using data for magnetic susceptibility and frequency dependent susceptibility available for soil types from other temperate and Mediterranean regions; 2) magnetic measurements of a stratified sample of soil samples taken from the Bosnian National Soil Archive. The national soil magnetic maps produced estimate that the area of land inferred as problematic for metal detectors is 4% and 30% according to the analogue and measurement methods respectively. Combining soil type with soil parent material and climate explains the spatial variability of soil magnetic properties in terms of mechanisms of secondary ferrimagnetic mineral production and accumulation. The resulting maps indicate that the magnetic properties of dominant soils in northern Bosnia tend to be unproblematic for detectors, while in central Bosnia there is likely to be moderate detector interference. However, there is a high likelihood of dominant soils affecting detectors in southern and western Bosnia and Herzegovina, equivalent to ~ 30% of the total land area. The mapped outputs of susceptibility and frequency dependent susceptibility provide demining end-users with an indication of the likelihood of encountering problem soils in areas selected for clearance operations.

Phylogeography of the rare Balkan endemic Martino's vole, Dinaromys bogdanovi, reveals strong differentiation within the western Balkan Peninsula

The spatial genetic structure of Martino's vole, a rare palaeoendemic species of the western Balkans, was investigated using DNA isolated from archived museum samples. The study was based on partial sequencing (555 bp) of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene for 63 specimens from 20 different localities throughout the species' range. Three highly divergent allopatric phylogenetic lineages (Northwestern, Central and Southeastern) were recognized among 47 haplotypes, suggesting three independent glacial differentiation centres within the western Balkans. The Northwestern lineage, which showed the highest divergence from all other samples (mean sequence divergence of 6.64% +/- 1.10), comprised samples collected from northwest of the Neretva River in Croatia, western Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Central and Southeastern lineages were separated by an average sequence divergence of 2.95% +/- 0.66 and were geographically divided by the Drim River (the Kosovo Basin in Serbia). Overall, haplotype diversity decreased from the Northwestern lineage to the Central and subsequently the Southeastern lineage, in a geographical pattern consistent with a stepping stone colonization. The observed distribution indicates a gradual southerly expansion with subsequent allopatry across the Neretva River and Drim River approximately 1 and 0.3 million years ago, respectively. Such a scenario is concordant with palaeontological evidence. Several highly divergent sublineages within the Northwestern and Central lineages showed no significant geographical structuring, suggesting secondary contact of allopatrically evolved lineages. We hypothesize that the topographical complexity of the Balkans promoted allopatry and isolation on a small geographical scale during interglacial periods, with secondary contact during glacial maxima. Furthermore, the three main lineages should be regarded as evolutionary significant units with important implications for conservation. Ecological data show that the Northwestern lineage in particular fulfils all criteria for a highly endangered, evolutionarily significant unit.

Introductory Essay: The Anthropology of Religion after Socialism

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes In addition to the papers published here, the Chicago panel included presentations by Sascha Goluboff (a co-organizer) on Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan, by Galina Lindquist on religion and charismatic healing in Moscow, and by Douglas Rogers on Old Belief in the Urals. Catherine Wanner chaired the panel and William Kelleher and Eriberto Lozada served as discussants. For the purposes of this introductory essay, I adopt a fairly narrow definition of anthropology: scholarship produced by researchers who are affiliated with anthropology programmes or who have published in anthropological journals. I take it for granted that all of this work is impressively interdisciplinary. However, adequately addressing the full range of perspectives that have shaped the field would simply be unwieldy in the present context. My thanks to Sonja Luehrmann and Philip Walters for suggestions that improved this essay. Among anthropologists of the region, it is customary to refer to the states in question as ‘socialist’ rather than ‘communist’. ‘Socialism’ picks up on the self-description of these states themselves (none of which actually declared success in reaching the historical stage of communism) and also points to a range of commonalities across the region, including single-party rule and centrally-planned economies. Our panel addressed only the socialist and postsocialist states of the former Soviet bloc. See also Lockwood, 1975 Lockwood W 1975 European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia (New York, Academic Press) [Google Scholar], for an early approach to religion and ethnicity in the region. Piers Vitebsky takes this claim as the point of departure for a study of postsoviet shamanism in Siberia, asking whether the postsoviet situation has made things any easier (2002, p. 191). See also Kideckel, 1983 Kideckel, D. 1983. Secular ritual and social change: a Romanian example. Anthropological Quarterly, 56, 2: pp. 69 – 75 [Google Scholar], and Sadomskaya, 1990 Sadomskaya, N. 1990. Soviet anthropology and contemporary rituals. Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, 31, 2 – 3: pp. 245 – 54 [Google Scholar]. Hann is also the director of a large project investigating religion after socialism at the Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. The project promises to produce a large and collaborative body of work, both on the topics I outline here and others. See the description at www.eth.de/research/postsocialist-eurasia/religion/civil-religion.html. In a separate study, Verdery (1999 Verdery K 1999 The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change (New York, Columbia University Press) [Google Scholar]) worked from conflicts among religious elites over the remains of an eighteenth-century Romanian archbishop to illustrate her claims about the ways in which attention to ‘the political lives of dead bodies’ can illuminate a broad spectrum of postsocialist transformations. Lindquist's recent work has also focused on religious practice, healing and transformations of the self (see especially 2000b). The literature on missions in historical anthropology is large and growing, and Peter van der Veer is not alone in pursuing this line of argument. Comaroff and Comaroff (1991 Comaroff J Comaroff J 1991 Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa vol. 1 (Chicago, IL, Chicago University Press) [Google Scholar]), for instance, explore at length the Protestant ethics inculcated in British nonconformist missionaries who set off to convert Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. Taking place in parallel with the expansion of capitalism, the route by which many South African Tswana came to identify themselves as Christian is also one of the primary ways in which modern European modes of understanding took root in the consciousness and personhood of non-Europeans. See also Keane, 2002 Keane, W. 2002. Sincerity, “modernity”, and the Protestants. Cultural Anthropology, 17, 1: pp. 65 – 92 [Google Scholar], on Protestant missions to the Indonesian island of Sumba. This is not, of course, to say that these elements have been or should be excluded from anthropological analysis. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman, for instance, effectively incorporate anti-abortion laws enacted with the support of religious conservatives into their analysis of shifting gender regimes after socialism (2000, p. 15 – 36; see also Zielinska, 2000 Zielinska E 2000 Between ideology, politics, and common sense: the discourse of reproductive rights in Poland in S. Gal and G. Kligman (eds), Reproducing Gender: Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism, (Princeton, Princeton University Press) [Google Scholar]).

Ivo Andrić as Red Rag and Political Football

THE SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW Volume8o, Number2 April2002 Ivo Andric as Red Rag and Political Football CELIAHAWKESWORTH 'Todaywe knowless about Andricthan before. He used once to be forus far more a writerthan the political or national symbolwhich he later undoubtedlybecame, particularlyin the lastfiftyyears.'Muhamed Filipovic, Dani,22 October I999, P. 41 'Today everyone claimsAndric, althoughfew readhim, and even fewer nurturethe spiritcontained in his novels and stories.'ZdravkoZima, Zadovo1jstvo utekstu, www.modernavremena .hr/zado/es_zima.asp, 29 November 2000 THE title of this article deliberately uses hackneyed terms in order to reflect the crude nature of the abuse of language that has characterized the recent conflict in former Yugoslavia. It is extraordinarily easy to inflame passions with a carefully chosen word as the regimes of both Milo'sevic and Tudjman abundantly demonstrated. This generally frenzied atmosphere, in which language has exceptional power, is the context for a reappraisal of many aspects of the region's past. At a time of violent upheaval and radical change, such a reappraisal of significant aspects of a nation's culture is inevitable. The old certainties have shattered and the future belongs to those who can create the most compelling story to give new shape to the past and cast the most Celia Hawkesworth is Senior Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. 202 CELIA HAWKESWORTH favourable possible light on the present. Or so at least it seems at the time to those with the power to forge the stories.The hollow nature of the projectwas clear almost immediately in Croatia,where Tudjman's significance seemed to have been largely extinguished with his death. The trauma confronting Serbia since Milosevic was extradited to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity is far deeper and more problematic. In this generalprocess of reassessment,the figureof Ivo Andric is an obvious target. In his lifetime Andric representeda unique phenomenon in being one of the few genuinely and explicitly Yugoslavwriters and the only YugoslavNobel-Prize winner. He was hailed and praised in all the republics of the former Yugoslavia. Such a phenomenon is meaningless today. The man and his work have become the object of energetic and impassioned debate among all the main culturalgroups in the new post-Yugoslavstates. Andric himself would not have been surprisedat the way he and his worksare being treated today. Shortly before his death, he wrote in one of his numerous jottings on the writer's craft: 'Your work will provide cover for decent fighters of various trends and ideologies, and for fanatics who have nothing whatsoever to do with them, who will use it ruthlesslyinsofar as it is advantageousto them and in the manner thatbest suitsthem." Some biographicalfacts andtheir symbolic value If we consider some elements of his biographywe shallsee that Andric is in a quite specificsituationin relationto allthree of the main cultural groups in the region: Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims. Andric was born, in I892, into a Catholic family in western Bosnia, in or near the town of Travnik.(A recent article suggeststhat so uncertain has everything about Andric become that he may not actually have been born in Travnik at all, but in a train, his mother having unexpectedly gone into labour before the family could reach the town.) It shouldbe saidthatAndrichimselfcontributedto the sense of mystery about his birthplace. He was proverbially resistant to discussion of his personal life, regarding it as quite irrelevant to an understandingofhiswork.When he was once askedthe directquestion: 'Mr Andric, is the house in Travnik,which bears a plaque with your name, in fact the house in which you were born?', Andric is said to have replied: 'Aman must be born somewhere.' After the family had lived for a very short time in Travnik, Andric's father died and his mother went with the child to live with her brother-in-lawand his wife in Visegrad in easternBosnia. This small town, with its mixed Muslim ' Quoted by Ivo Zanic, 'The Writer in Isolation. How Andric's writing was used in the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina', MOST,I999, p. 172. ANDRIC AS RED RAG AND POLITICAL FOOTBALL 203 andOrthodoxpopulationon theDrinariver,whichformedfromthe...

‘Preponderant Power’

THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET POWER in the late 1980s resulted in strategic realignments on a grand scale. The reorientation of the transatlantic alliance and the emergence of ethnonationalist conflicts in Europe were two key developments prompted by the demise of the cold war. They most prominently intersected in the wars that raged in the Balkans for five of the eight years between 1991 and 1999.The air campaign of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and the subsequent deployment of peacekeepers in Kosovo made 1999 in many respects the most dramatic year of the decade. In Bosnia the failure of traditional peacekeeping in a non-traditional setting exposed European inability to deal with a crisis on its doorsteps. That failure subsequently made the outlines of a new transatlantic alliance gradually more visible. In Kosovo the new doctrine, as yet unarticulated, was put into action with some success.What do developments in the Balkans reveal about the contours of NATO's reorientation?(f.1) And what are the consequences for the future of regional stability in southeast Europe? To answer these questions, it is necessary to take a closer look at the nature of Western failure in Bosnia, for Bosnia foreshadowed Kosovo. But it is the difference between the two wars that is ultimately more instructive.BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 1992-1995Western failure in the Bosnian war was systematic and consistent rather than accidental and haphazard. Both Europeans and Americans shared the position that forceful intervention in the Balkans - either to support humanitarian operations or to end the bloodshed - was too costly. If senior administration officials let it be known on background that 'one of the lessons of Bosnia is not to let the Europeans struggle alone without [United States] direction,'(f.2) it should also be noted that the Americans found it rather convenient for the Europeans to struggle alone. When the United States finally did get involved in early 1993, it was to kill off a peace plan that might have stopped the slaughter on terms similar to, perhaps even better than, those of the Dayton accords of November 1995.Only dramatic strategic reversals in the summer of 1995 and domestic pressures from the approaching presidential campaign in the United States altered the equation; the humanitarian variable had remained fairly constant through 42 months of savage warfare. Western obfuscation over Bosnia was a policy choice rather than a diplomatic, military, or intelligence breakdown, unaltered by any humanitarian concern (such as might have been propelled by the slaughter at Srebrenica or the marketplace massacre at Sarajevo or the death of 79 teenagers in Tuzla, all of which occurred within a few months in 1995). Rather, the scale tipped when the Croats, strengthened by United States support and, since 1994, formally allied with the Bosnian government, grew restless and decided to retake territories held by the Serbs in Krajina and western Bosnia. Croatian and Bosnian government forces started a sweeping offensive, eventually assisted by NATO airstrikes, while the Bosnian Serbs overran two government-held enclaves in the east, which in turn made United Nations peacekeepers less vulnerable to Serb retaliation. This lowered the cost of intervention dramatically. What from the perspective of Paris, London, and Washington might have been desirable but too costly had suddenly become desirable and feasible, particularly as the tipping of the balance could be assisted by air power alone without involving any NATO ground troops. It became obvious that balancing the warring factions was indeed the game the West played when the United States ambassador to Croatia and the United States special envoy to the region encouraged the Bosnian government and its Croat allies to halt their advance on Serb-held territories when territorial control broadly coincided with the 51/49 per cent territorial distribution on which earlier negotiations had been based. …

A pseudo-outbreak of skin disease in British troops.

When a newspaper report claimed that a serious outbreak of skin disease had occurred in British Army troops stationed at the Bocac Dam, in western Bosnia, all troops at the Bocac Dam location (n = 96), followed by a matched control group of troops (n = 91) at a nearby location, were examined by two investigators. 14% of the study population and 21% of the control group were found to have skin disorders. Most were complaints that are commonly encountered in general medical practice. There was a striking absence of skin infestations. The historical consultation rate for skin disorders had not increased. It was concluded that an outbreak of skin disease had not occurred in British troops guarding the dam. This epidemiological study shows that, even under conditions of modern field hygiene, up to one in five soldiers will have skin disease. Skin infestations, however, have become progressively less common during military campaigns this century, probably because of better personal hygiene, good preventive medicine practices and better access to effective health care.

Croatia's territorial consolidation and prospects for the future

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of developments in Croatia related to boundary and territorial issues in the aftermath of the disintegration of Yugoslavia. This survey will therefore detail key events including the Serbo-Croatian war of 1991, the uprising of the Serbian minority, international mediation efforts, the deployment and operation of UN forces in Croatia and Croatia's territorial consolidation in 1995. In the aftermath of Operations “Flash” and “Storm” in May and August 1995, respectively, and the spectacular gains by combined Croat and Bosnian forces in western Bosnia in September 1995, Croatia's strategic outlook has been transformed. There are, however, several outstanding issues and disputes yet to be resolved and these will be outlined.

Storm Influenced Shelf Sedimentation - An Example from the Lower Triassic (Scythian) Siliciclastic and Carbonate Succession near Knin (Southern Croatia and Western Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Scythian sedimentary rocks exposed at Strmica and Plavno near Knin represent storm-generated deposits in inner (Lower Scythian) and outer (Upper Scythian) shelf settings. The Lower Scythian is represented by Siliciclastic facies which consists of two subfacies components - thin-bedded shale-siltstone-sandstone alternations attached to the distal part of the inner shelf, and a thick-bedded sandstone-oolite subfacies attached either to the proximal part of the inner shelf or to the shoreface. Repetitive alternation of these two subfacies which form the Siliciclastic facies is interpreted as high frequency sedimentary cycles possibly related to high-frequency sea-level changes which in turn induced wave-base oscillations. This is observed as a rapid introduction of high energy proximal inner shelf or shoreface deposits into a muddy, distal part of the inner shelf environment. Upper Scythian sedimentary rocks are lime mudstones with marls in the Mud facies, and with marls and calcarenaceous siltstones in the Siltstone-mudstone facies. No obvious cyclic periodicity was observed within these two facies except the random occurence of punctuated storm layers with basal skeletal lag (Mud facies) and silty material input in normally mud dominated outer shelf sedimentary rocks (Siltstone - mudstone facies). According to the facies characteristics the Lower Triassic succession near Knin is interpreted as a consequence of a low-term, possibly third-order sea level rise compared to the global sea level rise during the Scythian.

Additional Considerations on the Epiadriaticum, Outer Dinarides

Reinterpretation of some earlier published data on pelagic beds in Lika, Dalmatia, western Bosnia, eastern Hercegovina and Monte-negro confirms the existence of a pelagic, labile Interplatform Belt (Epiadriaticum) in the frame of the Outer Dinarides.

Upper Permian Evaporites and Associated Rocks of Dalmatia and Borderline Area of Lika and Bosnia

In the region of Central and North Dalrnatia, as well as in the southeastern Lika and western Bosnia, the evaporite complex composed mainly of gypswn and anhydrite and associated rocks: clastics, carbonate and somewhere volcanites have been investigated. The lithological and petrographical characteristics of these sediments, their interrelationships and relations with Mesozoic, Paleogene and Neogene strata have been shown. Also, the palynological analyses prove Upper Perm ian age of the cvaporite complex for the first time. This conclusion has been supported with the geochemical and mineralogical data as well.

Origin and Depositional Environments of the Evaporite and Carbonate Complex (Upper Permian) from the Central Part of the Dinarides (Southern Croatia and Western Bosnia)

The Upper Permian sediments from central part of the Dinarides contain three main facies : 1. - carbonates; 2.- evaporites with early diagenetical dolomites and 3.- clastic rocks (siltstones and sandstones) and one special rock type- carbonate cavity breccias. The carbonate facies include lagoonal and intertidallimestone, evaporite facies contain gypsum (originated by hydration of anhydrites), early-diagenetical dolomites and anhydrites deposited in coastal sabkha environment. The clastic rocks were deposited either fore-shore or playa to saltlake playa environments. The carbonate cavity breccias are interpretated as a terrestrial features, i .e. secondary surface products of physical and chemical weathering oftectonically disrupted carbonate-evaporite sediments. The Upper Permian evaporites and carbonates of the central Dinarides are sediments deposited in evaporitic conditions arround the edges of an epeiric marine basin which existed in conditions of a general regressive tendency and permanent coastal seawards progradation. The Upper Permian evaporites of central Dinarides are comparable with evaporites from the Bellerophon Formation from the Southern Alps, Italy.

Book reviews

William G. Lockwood European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia New York, Academic Press, 1975, pp. 241; $18.50 (Bibliography 10) Muslim Communities In Non‐Muslim States London, Islamic Council of Europe, 1980, pp. 169 $5.00

: European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia . William G. Lockwood.

: European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia . William G. Lockwood.

European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia

European Moslems: Economy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia

Bride Theft and Social Maneuverability in Western Bosnia

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.

Converts and Consanguinity: The Social Organization of Moslem Slavs in Western Bosnia

Converts and Consanguinity: The Social Organization of Moslem Slavs in Western Bosnia