| Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape Contributor(s): Hadzimuhamedovic, Safet (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785338560 ISBN-13: 9781785338564 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Religion |
| Dewey: 949.742 |
| LCCN: 2017053928 |
| Series: Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hadzimuhamedovic Safet: - Safet HadziMuhamedovic currently teaches anthropology at the University of Bristol. He has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia, Palestine, and the Basque Country since 2009 and has been recipient of a number of prestigious research awards. He has previously taught at Goldsmiths and SOAS, University of London, and Goethe University Frankfurt, and has written on sacral landscapes, historicity, and political agency of "nonhuman" beings, and ontological approaches to the question of home. |