Search for dissertations about: "Sarajevo"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word Sarajevo.

2. 1. War within : Everyday life in Sarajevo under siege

   Author : Ivana Macek; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Sarajevo; war; ethnic conflict; ethnic relations; nationalism; identity; anthropology of war; former Yugoslavia; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : In this ethnography of the war in Bosnia, the author examines the ways in which thepeople of Sarajevo negotiated the meaning of normality in their everyday lives, which became dominated by the war situation and the siege of the town. The study explores the ways of dealing with everyday threat to life, ways of providing the subsistence, changes in social relations, and the role of religion and ethnic traditions in the process of constituting national identities. READ MORE