Sarajevo Under Siege : : Anthropology in Wartime /

Sarajevo Under Siege : : Anthropology in Wartime / / Ivana Maček.

Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Maček, Ivana,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:The Ethnography of Political Violence
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 25 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. Life Under Siege
  • 1. Civilian, Soldier, Deserter
  • 2. Death and Creativity in Wartime
  • 3. Struggling for Subsistence
  • 4. Tests of Trust
  • Part II. Ethnonationalist Reinventions
  • 5. Political and Economic Transformation
  • 6. Language and Symbols
  • 7. Mobilizing Religion
  • 8. Reorienting Social Relationships
  • 9. Reconceptualizing War
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References

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