TY - BOOK AU - Doubt,Keith AU - Slapšak,Svetlana TI - Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina SN - 9789633860618 U1 - 305.40949742 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Budapest, New York PB - Central European University Press KW - Bosnians KW - Marriage customs and rites KW - Elopement KW - Bosnia and Hercegovina KW - Bosnia and Herzegovina KW - Elopement--Bosnia and Herzegovina KW - Marriage KW - Women KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - 19th century, 20th century, Bosnia, Elopement, Ethnic relations, Ethnography, Marriage, Women N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Foreword Elopement, Women and Happiness: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER 1 The Study of Elopement --; CHAPTER 2 The Liminality of Elopement --; CHAPTER 3 An Extraordinary Elopement --; CHAPTER 4 Habitus in Bosnia --; CHAPTER 5 Deciding in a Blink --; CHAPTER 6 The Secret and Elopement --; CHAPTER 7 Elopement and Ego-Identity --; CHAPTER 8 The Risk of Foreclosure in the Arranged Marriage --; CHAPTER 9 Family Folklore and Elopement --; CHAPTER 10 Affinal Relations after Elopement --; CHAPTER 11 Bosnia’s Kin in Turkey --; CHAPTER 12 Balkan Ethnology --; CHAPTER 13 Bosnian Folk --; CHAPTER 14 Ethnicity and Nationality --; CHAPTER 15 Accounting for Bosnian Culture --; Appendixes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 brings an original perspective to folklore of Bosnians at a certain period of time and the differences and similarities of the three main ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It examines the transethnic character of cultural heritage, against divisions that dominate their tragic recent past.  The monograph focuses in particular on customs shared by different ethnic groups, specifically elopement, and affinal visitation. The elopement is a transformative rite of passage where an unmarried girl becomes a married woman. The affinal visitation, which follows, is a confirmatory ceremony where ritualized customs between families establish in-lawships These customs reflect a transethnic heritage shared by people in Bosnia as a national group, including Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633860618 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633860618/original ER -