BOSNIAN MUSLIM WRITTEN CULTURE AS REFLECTED IN TRADITIONAL ORAL POETRY AND FOLKLORE
BOSNIAN MUSLIM WRITTEN CULTURE AS REFLECTED IN TRADITIONAL ORAL POETRY AND FOLKLORE

Summary/Abstract: This article explores references to written culture in traditional Bosnian Muslim poetry and folklore as a means to understanding how people understood literacy and books in a predominantly oral culture. In particular, it aims to ask: what was the significance of possessing books in such a culture? While examining links between literacy and orality in pre-modern Bosnia in all their complexity falls outside the scope of the present study, the article aims to contribute to the topic by referring to two sources rooted in orality and folklore: oral poetry and beliefs and customs related to book-culture.

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