Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape

Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
ISBN-10
1785338579
ISBN-13
9781785338571
Category
Social Science
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2018-04-25
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Safet HadžiMuhamedović

Description

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.

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