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Property, Postsocialism, And Post-Yugoslav Identity: A Feminist Communication Performance Ethnography, Jennifer Zenovich

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes how women in the postsocialist former Yugoslavia perform gender in the transition from socialism to capitalism by considering their material and symbolic relationships to property. Using performance ethnography to theorize the relational, embodied, and discursive ways in which identity has been mobilized in the former Yugoslavia, the central question is how insights from the postsocialist world can critique notions of the individual as well as global capital. Through the prism of postsocialist and postcolonial feminist theory and performance studies, I focus on three contexts: women’s feminized labor as sustaining the tourism industry in Montenegro, my rape and …

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

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

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

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 …

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

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

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 …

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 Perspect1ve On The Former Yugoslavia, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

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.

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

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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.

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.

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

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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 …

Introduction, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

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 …

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 …

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.

Some Perspectives On Balkan Migration Patterns (With Particular Reference To Yugoslavia), Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

To understand fully the meaning of contemporary population movements a view of the past is essential. In the period after World War II in the Balkans, mass population movements within countries have been influenced particularly by urban industrial developments. These reflect a delayed process when compared with Western Europe. Within the past decade and a half there has also been a movement of workers from the Balkan countries with open borders - Greece and Yugoslavia - to the labor-deficit countries of Western Europe. These population movements relate not only to altered individual social and economic value systems, but also to …

Some Perspectives On Balkan Migration Patterns (With Particular Reference To Yugoslavia), Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

To understand fully the meaning of contemporary population movements a view of the past is essential. In the period after World War II in the Balkans, mass population movements within countries have been influenced particularly by urban industrial developments. These reflect a delayed process when compared with Western Europe. Within the past decade and a half there has also been a movement of workers from the Balkan countries with open borders - Greece and Yugoslavia - to the labor-deficit countries of Western Europe. These population movements relate not only to altered individual social and economic value systems, but also to …

Our Serbian Village, Joel Halpern, Barbara Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Our Serbian Village, Joel Halpern, Barbara Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.

The Society, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

This annotated area guide presents a judicious evaluation of those writing which are particularly relevant to the contemporary political, socioeconomic, and intellectual life of Southeastern Europe. Specifically, the focus is on the lands and peoples of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia.

YUGOSLAVIA the SOCIETY by Joel M. Halpern (with the exception of section F) Overview 2644-2664 Rural Life and Problems 2665-2675 Urban Life and Problems 2676-2683 Family, Women, Youth 2684-2701 Special Aspects 2702-2706 Psychology 2707-2718

Yugoslavia: Modernization In An Ethnically Diverse State, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.

Yugoslavia The Society, Joel Halpern

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

This annotated area guide presents a judicious evaluation of those writing which are particularly relevant to the contemporary political, socioeconomic, and intellectual life of Southeastern Europe. Specifically, the focus is on the lands and peoples of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia.

YUGOSLAVIA the SOCIETY by Joel M. Halpern (with the exception of section F) Overview 2644-2664 Rural Life and Problems 2665-2675 Urban Life and Problems 2676-2683 Family, Women, Youth 2684-2701 Special Aspects 2702-2706 Psychology 2707-2718

Observations On The Intellectual History Of Ethnology And Other Social Sciences In Yugoslavia, Joel Halpern

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

As anthropologists turn increasingly to the study of complex societies, they are led to reflect on the role that social science plays in national ideologies and the ways in which the current state and development of social science reflect other cultural states and processes. Indeed, such reflections can usefully be turned on our own society. One sees that it is much more appropriate to discard old notions of the distinction between ‘science’ and ‘folklore’ and to regard the social science of a particular society, however sophisticated and presumably objective, as an important part of its subjective ideology about itself and …

Yugoslavia: Modernization In An Ethnically Diverse State, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Observations On The Intellectual History Of Ethnology And Other Social Sciences In Yugoslavia, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

As anthropologists turn increasingly to the study of complex societies, they are led to reflect on the role that social science plays in national ideologies and the ways in which the current state and development of social science reflect other cultural states and processes. Indeed, such reflections can usefully be turned on our own society. One sees that it is much more appropriate to discard old notions of the distinction between ‘science’ and ‘folklore’ and to regard the social science of a particular society, however sophisticated and presumably objective, as an important part of its subjective ideology about itself and …