Reflections on Sreten Vukosavljevic’s “Letters from Village”
Reflections on Sreten Vukosavljevic’s “Letters from Village”

Summary/Abstract: ln this article is discussed Sreten Vukosavljevic's Letters from Village, that is his articles published in the prewar daily and weekly journals and newspapers. The objective of this article is to make corrections of wrong and incomplete opinions on this part of Vukosavljevic’s work. A few examples among his articles unintentionally selected are presented. A special attention has been paid to the Vukosavljevic’s articles critical to the project of the reform of the actual Civil Code as well as to the relation of state legislation to traditional law, For the first time is published archive data concerning Vukosavljevic’s appointment as a lecturer of sociology on the prewar Faculty of Law in Beograd. At the end it is discussed the Vukosavljic’s concept of the people of whom he was studying in his "letters from village', and it is persuaded that he conceived Yugoslavs as non-complex and non-composed nation. The differences among the people of Yugoslavia are regional and not national.

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