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What Will You Do Here? Dignified Work And The Politics Of Mobility In Serbia, Dana N. Johnson

Doctoral Dissertations

Serbia is said to have one of the highest rates of brain drain in the world. For the generation glossed as the “children of the 1990s,” stances toward mobility and migration have shifted along with geopolitics. Following nearly two decades of wartime entrapment, in 2009 the conditions of possibility for mobility fundamentally changed for Serbian citizens. Of both symbolic and material consequence, the country’s return to respectable geopolitical standing also marked a shift toward more nuanced stancetaking in relation to mobility and migration. Namely, by the time of my research, the expectations of youth—not only of “normal mobility” but of …

The Ecological Transformation Of A Resettled Area, Pig Herders To Settled Farmers In Central Serbia (Sumadija, Yugoslavia) During The 19th And 20th Centuries, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

A vegetarian has a difficult time finding a suitable restaurant in Serbia — the featured dishes are meat, potatoes with varieties of pork a favorite as in the grilled skewer of meat known as raznjici, the pork equivalent of shiskebab. Some of the folk restaurants now feature corn bread, proja, formerly a basic of the peasant diet and now a romantic speciality. These dietary patterns represent a cycling of time, a link to past patterns of livestock raising — of the herding of pigs in forests. A tourist travelling

The Ecological Transformation Of A Resettled Area, Pig Herders To Settled Farmers In Central Serbia (Sumadija, Yugoslavia) During The 19th And 20th Centuries, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

A vegetarian has a difficult time finding a suitable restaurant in Serbia — the featured dishes are meat, potatoes with varieties of pork a favorite as in the grilled skewer of meat known as raznjici, the pork equivalent of shiskebab. Some of the folk restaurants now feature corn bread, proja, formerly a basic of the peasant diet and now a romantic speciality. These dietary patterns represent a cycling of time, a link to past patterns of livestock raising — of the herding of pigs in forests. A tourist travelling

Professional And Personal Perspectives On Long Term Research In Serbia [Yugoslavia], Joel Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

On the leveI of personal relationships, there is, perhaps, no need to pose the question that is the title of this paper. The long and ongoing research experience has been tremendously enriching for the investigators and our now adult children, who first arrived in the viIlage as toddlers and infant. From what our vilIage friends convey, satisfactions with this enduring relationship have been a two-way process. But beyond personal affect, what is the intellectual value of long-term study of a single community?

Over thirty years ago the opportunity to document European village Life, in this case a village in Serbia, …

Professional And Personal Perspectives On Long Term Research, Joel Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

On the leveI of personal relationships, there is, perhaps, no need to pose the question that is the title of this paper. The long and ongoing research experience has been tremendously enriching for the investigators and our now adult children, who first arrived in the viIlage as toddlers and infant. From what our vilIage friends convey, satisfactions with this enduring relationship have been a two-way process. But beyond personal affect, what is the intellectual value of long-term study of a single community?

Over thirty years ago the opportunity to document European village Life, in this case a village in Serbia, …

Professional And Personal Perspectives On Long Term Research In Serbia [Yugoslavia], Joel Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

On the leveI of personal relationships, there is, perhaps, no need to pose the question that is the title of this paper. The long and ongoing research experience has been tremendously enriching for the investigators and our now adult children, who first arrived in the viIlage as toddlers and infant. From what our vilIage friends convey, satisfactions with this enduring relationship have been a two-way process. But beyond personal affect, what is the intellectual value of long-term study of a single community?

Over thirty years ago the opportunity to document European village Life, in this case a village in Serbia, …

Our Rural Metamorphoses In The Eyes Of The Ethnologist Joel M. Halpern, Joel Halpern, Lidija Boskovic

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

Our multiethnic community is one of the most mosaicked ethnic and cultural areas in the world. It is therefore natural for foreign ethnologists , anthropologists , folklorists , and culturologists to display a great interest for the facts , phenomena and trends of development and affirmation, endurance and intermingling of different cultures in our country. Among the foreign humanists who are studying our society and culture, one of the most prominent places is undoubtedly occupied by American ethnologist Joel M. Halpern, University Professor from Massachusetts (State University in Amherst), who has visited our country on several occasions (for longer or …

Our Rural Metamorphoses In The Eyes Of The Ethnologist Joel M. Halpern, Joel Halpern, Lidija Boskovic

Joel M. Halpern

Our multiethnic community is one of the most mosaicked ethnic and cultural areas in the world. It is therefore natural for foreign ethnologists , anthropologists , folklorists , and culturologists to display a great interest for the facts , phenomena and trends of development and affirmation, endurance and intermingling of different cultures in our country. Among the foreign humanists who are studying our society and culture, one of the most prominent places is undoubtedly occupied by American ethnologist Joel M. Halpern, University Professor from Massachusetts (State University in Amherst), who has visited our country on several occasions (for longer or …

Comparative Dynamics Of A Traditional Serbian Village: Oraciac 1863 To 1975, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

Research proposal: I. Purposes of this Research In summary this research will provide a model for the investigation of kinship, demographic and socio-economic systems in an open systems framework. The impact of changes in these systems on the individual life cycle then follows as the village roles change not only qualitatively - as in the appearance of new occupations, but also quantitatively in the duration of role incumbancy for the individual. II. Previous Research III. Methodological Considerations

Individual Life Cycles And Family Cycles. A Comparison Of Perspectives In Yugoslavia, Joel Halpern

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

This paper seeks to relate changing individual life cycles to changing cycles of family development. My data refer specifically to Yugoslavia (although it is hoped that some of the points made will have more general applicability). Within Yugoslavia primary reference is to a village in central Serbia which I have studied intermittently over the past twenty years, but comparative data will be presented from other regions as well.

Individual Life Cycles And Family Cycles. A Comparison Of Perspectives, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

This paper seeks to relate changing individual life cycles to changing cycles of family development. My data refer specifically to Yugoslavia (although it is hoped that some of the points made will have more general applicability). Within Yugoslavia primary reference is to a village in central Serbia which I have studied intermittently over the past twenty years, but comparative data will be presented from other regions as well.

Individual Life Cycles And Family Cycles. A Comparison Of Perspectives In Yugoslavia, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This paper seeks to relate changing individual life cycles to changing cycles of family development. My data refer specifically to Yugoslavia (although it is hoped that some of the points made will have more general applicability). Within Yugoslavia primary reference is to a village in central Serbia which I have studied intermittently over the past twenty years, but comparative data will be presented from other regions as well.

Comparative Dynamics Of A Traditional Serbian Village: Oraciac 1863 To 1975, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Research proposal: I. Purposes of this Research In summary this research will provide a model for the investigation of kinship, demographic and socio-economic systems in an open systems framework. The impact of changes in these systems on the individual life cycle then follows as the village roles change not only qualitatively - as in the appearance of new occupations, but also quantitatively in the duration of role incumbancy for the individual. II. Previous Research III. Methodological Considerations

Town And Countryside In Serbia In The Nineteenth-Century, Social And Household Structure As Reflected In The Census Of 1863, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

Balkan familial and household structure has been the subject of discussion and study for over a century, but not much attention has been paid to the specifics of size and kinship composition. If we give as a brief tentative definition of the zadruga an extended household composed of a father and his married sons and their offspring (paternal zadruga), or two or more married brothers and their children (fraternal zadruga), how many people in a given community actually lived in these types of households? What about the size of the households themselves? Much of the literature with respect to the …

Town And Countryside In Serbia In The Nineteenth-Century, Social And Household Structure As Reflected In The Census Of 1863, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Balkan familial and household structure has been the subject of discussion and study for over a century, but not much attention has been paid to the specifics of size and kinship composition. If we give as a brief tentative definition of the zadruga an extended household composed of a father and his married sons and their offspring (paternal zadruga), or two or more married brothers and their children (fraternal zadruga), how many people in a given community actually lived in these types of households? What about the size of the households themselves? Much of the literature with respect to the …

Our Serbian Village, Joel Halpern, Barbara Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

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Our Serbian Village, Joel Halpern, Barbara Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.

The Orasac Villager And The World Outside, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

The universe of the Orasac peasant centers on his household, his neighborhood, his clan, and his village. The world outside the village is of secondary importance, although he is very much aware of it and interested in it. Toward each larger and more distant sphere of influence and association, from the relation of Orasac to its surrounding village and market town, to Sumadija and Serbia, to the rest of Yugoslavia, and to the vast world beyond, his feelings become less intense.

The Orasac Villager And The World Outside, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

The universe of the Orasac peasant centers on his household, his neighborhood, his clan, and his village. The world outside the village is of secondary importance, although he is very much aware of it and interested in it. Toward each larger and more distant sphere of influence and association, from the relation of Orasac to its surrounding village and market town, to Sumadija and Serbia, to the rest of Yugoslavia, and to the vast world beyond, his feelings become less intense.

Songs And Chants From A Serbian Village, Joel Halpern, Barbara Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

The following notes, collected while making a community study in the region of Sumadija, central Serbia, in 1953-1954, present a glimpse of village chants and songs and describe the circumstances under which they are sung. The intent here is simply to illustrate their position in the total peasant culture and not to analyze their musical form and content.

Songs And Chants From A Serbian Village, Joel Halpern, Barbara Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

The following notes, collected while making a community study in the region of Sumadija, central Serbia, in 1953-1954, present a glimpse of village chants and songs and describe the circumstances under which they are sung. The intent here is simply to illustrate their position in the total peasant culture and not to analyze their musical form and content.