Through the Window. Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Through the Window. Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Author(s): Keith Doubt
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Elopement; Marriage customs and rites in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary/Abstract: This book is not about war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, evil, or the killing of a society. It is about a cultural heritage, something vital to a society as a society, something that was not killed in the previous war, something that is resilient.Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina accounts for the trans-ethnic character of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s cultural heritage, focusing on marriage customs shared by different ethnic groups, namely, elopement and affinal visitations. The study provides for the inter-subjective logic that “makes sense” of these two complementary rites of passage that establish the collective identities of Catholics, Muslims, and Orthodox in Bosnia-Herzegovnia, and shows how the affinal relation called “prijatelji” is special to Bosnia and unique to its social character.

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