Traditions and Folklore in Yugoslavia
Author : Špiro Kulišić
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Costume
ISBN :
Author : Špiro Kulišić
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Costume
ISBN :
Author : Marie-Janine Calic
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612495648
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? A History of Yugoslavia provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia—from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Calic takes a fresh and innovative look at the colorful, multifaceted, and complex history of Yugoslavia, emphasizing major social, economic, and intellectual changes from the turn of the twentieth century and the transition to modern industrialized mass society. She traces the origins of ethnic, religious, and cultural divisions, applying the latest social science approaches, and drawing on the breadth of recent state-of-the-art literature, to present a balanced interpretation of events that takes into account the differing perceptions and interests of the actors involved. Uniquely, Calic frames the history of Yugoslavia for readers as an essentially open-ended process, undertaken from a variety of different regional perspectives with varied composite agenda. She shuns traditional, deterministic explanations that notorious Balkan hatreds or any other kind of exceptionalism are to blame for Yugoslavia’s demise, and along the way she highlights the agency of twentieth-century modern mass society in the politicization of differences. While analyzing nuanced political and social-economic processes, Calic describes the experiences and emotions of ordinary people in a vivid way. As a result, her groundbreaking work provides scholars and learned readers alike with an accessible, trenchant, and authoritative introduction to Yugoslavia's complex history.
Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780271044354
Author : Ljerka V. Rasmussen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 1136716440
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Woislav M. Petrovitch
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Folk literature, Serbian
ISBN :
A collection of Serbian folk tales preceded by background to the history and cultural traditions of the Slavic people, including short essays on good and evil spirits, vampires, superstition, Christmas Eve, wedding rites, etc.
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110803097
Papers presented at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
Author : Marcus Tanner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300091257
This second edition updates the account and follows Croatia's progress to democracy since the death of President Franjo Tudjman."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art, Yugoslav
ISBN :
Author : Téa Obreht
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679604367
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly Look for Téa Obreht’s second novel, Inland, now available. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times • Entertainment Weekly • The Christian Science Monitor • The Kansas City Star • Library Journal Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation. In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Economist • Vogue • Slate • Chicago Tribune • The Seattle Times • Dayton Daily News • Publishers Weekly • Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered “Stunning . . . a richly textured and searing novel.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “[Obreht] has a talent for subtle plotting that eludes most writers twice her age, and her descriptive powers suggest a kind of channeled genius. . . . No novel [this year] has been more satisfying.”—The Wall Street Journal “Filled with astonishing immediacy and presence, fleshed out with detail that seems firsthand, The Tiger’s Wife is all the more remarkable for being the product not of observation but of imagination.”—The New York Times Book Review “That The Tiger’s Wife never slips entirely into magical realism is part of its magic. . . . Its graceful commingling of contemporary realism and village legend seems even more absorbing.”—The Washington Post
Author : Catherine Baker
Publisher : Theory for a Global Age
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Former Yugoslav republics
ISBN : 9781526126627
Describes the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally