Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape

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 h...

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Main Author: HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2018]
Series:Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings 1
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
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Summary: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 fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation-waiting to wait-becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (304 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785338571
DOI:10.1515/9781785338571