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Bibliography Of Book Collections At The Southeast European Institue, University Of Graz, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

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Yugoslav Socialism And Its Aftermath As Viewed Through The Lens Of Personal Experiences In The Balkans, 1953-2004, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

In this brief essay it is my intention to focus on how Yugoslav government policies affected my research. At the same time I wish to explore the much more important question as to the ways in which the Yugoslav variety of socialism, as developed in a centralized communist and ideologically bound state, affected the everyday lives of the people in that country. The time frame I am considering is some four decades beginning with the early 1950s. The events recounted here from memory are not intended as an established view of the past but rather as a compilation of selected …

Judaic Studies And Me, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

At the time I carried out my researches in Alaska among the Eskimo, in Balkan villages and in Southeast Asia among the peoples of Laos I must admit that I usually perceived “Self” and ”Other” as distinct categories, and certainly not interactive ones. But, from a contemporary point of view, applying a reflexive approach, I now readily perceive interrelationships which, at that time, seemed remote from one another. This specifically applies to the ways in which Jews and the Jewish experience have not been separated from but really a part of my experiences in distant places.

Interview With Joel Halpern [Regarding Fieldwork In Serbia] Conducted By Mirjana Prošić-Dvornić, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Interview with Joel M. Halpern conducted by Mirjana Prošić-Dvornić October 2003 to April 2004 (Revised in April 2007)

Reflections On Jozef Obrebski’S Work In Macedonia From The Perspective Of American Anthropology, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This article deals with the difficulties encountered by Jozef Obrebski when he immigrated from Poland after World War II. He went first to England where he gave a series of lectures at Oxford University. Then he went to Jamaica under a contract sponsored by the British Colonial Office. Subsequently he moved to New York City where he obtained a job working at the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations. He ended his career at C .W. Post College, a small undergraduate institution near New York City. This article documents how he failed to make a career in the United States. …

Letters From Macedonia, Joel M. Halpern, Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Field notes that Joel M. Halpern and Barbara Kerewski - Halpern have made during their field research and trips in Macedonian in the ’50ties of the XX century are published. Today they are accompanied by their comments, as well as photographs that illustrate their interest and the time in which they worked.

Images Of Bosnia, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

The images which appear here are, unless otherwise indicated, are copyright Joel M. Halpern and taken from the catalog of an exhibition entitled The Thin Veneer; the Peoples of Bosnia and their Disappearing Cultural Heritage (Copyright 1997, University of Massachusetts Amherst and used by permission). Copies of the catalog are available for $ 6.00 including postage, from: Betsy Siersma, Director, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002. Part of this presentation is also available online at http://www.h-net.org/~sae/halpern/photos.html.

American Multiculturalism - The Position Of Jewish Americans, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This brief essay is written at the time of the end of the American election of November 2000. From the perspective of the history Jews in the United States one of the significant aspects of this election has been that for the first time in history there has been a Jewish candidate on the ballot. Joseph Lieberman, the Senator from Connecticut, has been the candidate of the Democratic Party for Vice-President. Not only is Joseph Lieberman of Jewish background but also, more remarkably, he is a practicing Orthodox Jew. At the same time, in this very close and contested election, …

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

Conrad Maynadier Arensberg (1910-1997), Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Conrad Maynadier Atensberg died on February 10, 1997. Connie, as he was known to his legions of students, colleagues and friends, was 86. Connie's work was key to the development of anthropology as a natural science in a hierarchy with the other natural sciences, each with its own specific unit of observation-that of anthropology being human interaction.

Anthropology And Conflict: Reflections On The Bosnian War Part 2, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

It clearly takes a certain period to reflect on a singular experience in one's life. In the May 1996 issue of AnthroWatch I reported on my winter visit to Sarajevo and Mostar, the two principle towns in Bosnia. I want to begin to approach an evaluation of this situation through a personal lens. Perhaps for some anthropologists their field experiences have been distanced from war and conflict. But this has not been my experience. Rather my anthropological journeys have been contextualized by major conflicts. I first went to the Balkans in 1953, and researched, principally in Serbia, for my Columbia …

Some Anthropological Observations On A War - The Conflict In Bosnia, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Since I recently (in January and February) had a chance to spend something less than a month in the former Yugoslavia, particularly in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo and the Hercegovinianmain town of Mostar, I thought I might briefly share some of my observations with readers of Anthrowatch. My mini series will consist of this initial section focusing on description and the second part will involve an attempt to put these comments in some analytical perspective. Since my Columbia dissertation dealt with this area I have thus been involved with researching this area over some five decades , from the …

Connections On Death, Destruction And The Future - An American Perspective On The Former Yugoslavia, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

In making connections to explain and evaluate the causes and consequences of violence in the former Yugoslavia it seems useful to explore varying temporal perceptions and the relative uses of power. These alternate perspectives range from the highly political linear time bound year frame of American intervention as presented to the U. S. Congress by the Clinton Administration to the unbounded liminal temporal categories of the combatants linked to medieval battles and ancestral graves. In proceeding to evaluate these categories and examine their impact on current historical process I feel it is first necessary to examine our points of departure.

Laos: Beyond The Revolution, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

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Introduction Of "War Among The Yugoslavs" (Special Issue), Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This issue presents American and West European anthropological perspectives on recent events prior to the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia. Included are articles by anthropologists from Croatia and Serbia which deal directly with the war and its impact on their respective societies. The first group of essays should be understood as background to armed struggle involving violent death, destruction, and bereavement and those tragedies still in the making. The horrors associated with these events in this Balkan setting are unparalleled in Europe since World War Two. They do not have precise parallels elsewhere but bring to mind the sufferings …

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, …

Refugees As Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians And Vietnamese In America.; The Boat People And Achievement In America: A Study Of Family Life, Hard Work, And Cultural Values [Book Review], Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Rituals Of Transformation, Establishing Time Boundaries For The End Of Socialism: The Case Of Bulgaria, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

How does one era end and another begin? How do people publicly express themselves in a crisis of transition? Improvised drama is one alternative. What follows are some recent personal observations in the form of an essay rather than a research article. The objective of this essay is to give a view of current sociopolitical transformations in Bulgaria. The passage through this period of transition is still incomplete at the time of this writing.

Beginning A Career: A Bronx Autobiography, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This article begins where the initial account, "The pulley, A Memoir of a Bronx Industry," ends. In some ways my father paints an idealized picture. His eagerness and dedication seem somewhat out of place in today's world, but many aspects of the world he describes are still familiar to an older generation although contexts have drastically changed.

Will They Still Be Dancing?: Integration And Ethnic Transformation Among Yugoslav Immigrants In Scandinavia [Book Review], Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Laos: Politics, Economics, And Society; Laos: A Bibliography, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Poppies, Pipes, And People: Opium And Its Use In Laos, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Origins And Early Jobs: A Bronx Autobiography, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

For me to work with my father in reconstructing his life and, by extension, my own past, has been a challenging journey. Even though my father lived in a society where records were kept, the magnitude and administrative anonymity of a big city have made the search for supporting documents on family and factory enterprise a hard one. As an anthropologist I have spent most of my professional life over four decades writing about Serbian peasants, the royal court in Laos, and Inuit (Eskimo) settlements. These are people with known pasts whose local roots go deep and whose history lies …

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 …

Time And Social Structure: A Yugoslav Case Study, Joel Halpern, Richard A. Wagner

Joel M. Halpern

Cyclical and linear time perspectives on family household structures are defined. They are utilized in a case study of the father-son dyad in a central Serbian village over the past 150 years. This relationship is critical to understanding the transitions in the South Slav extended family household, the zadruga. Data are based on oral recall and on vital, tax, and census records. Linear time measures include vital rates such as declining fertility and mortality as well as decreasing household size. Cyclical time measures, which have not varied in the period studied, include age at marriage and age of parent at …

The Pulley, The Memoir Of A Bronx Industry, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

Just as neighbourhoods provided a setting for the interaction of different religious and ethnic groups, so too did the place of employment. Successful neighborhodds have had a sense of community of shared spirit, about them. The same was true for successful industrial enterprises.

The Village Of The Deep Pond: Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos; The Old Man: A Biographical Account Of A Lao Villager (Book Review), Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Migrants Of The Mountains: The Cultural Ecology Of The Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) Of Thailand [Book Review], Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

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