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. Centred on the shared harvest feast of Elijah's Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book sho...

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Main Author: HadžiMuhamedović, Safet (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books 2018
In:Year: 2018
Series/Journal:Articulating journeys: festivals, memorials, and homecomings Volume 1
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gacko (Region) / Time awareness / Religion / Ritual / Nearness
Further subjects:B Landscapes Social aspects (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
B Elijah the Prophet's Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
B Landscapes (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Religious aspects
B Gacko (Bosnia and Herzegovina : Opština) Historical geography