Waiting for Elijah : : Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape / / Safet HadžiMuhamedović.
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Foreword to the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I Time and Its Discontents
- CHAPTER 1 Schizochronotopia, or Elijah’s Pitfall
- CHAPTER 2 Time and Home
- CHAPTER 3 Time and In-Other
- CHAPTER 4 Time and Epic Residues
- PART II The Many Faces of Elijah
- Prelude A River of Many Names
- CHAPTER 5 The Georgics An Extended Poetry of the Land
- CONCLUSION Waiting for Elijah
- Bibliography
- Index