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Author HadžiMuhamedović, Safet, author.

Title Waiting for Elijah : time and encounter in a Bosnian landscape / Safet HadžiMuhamedović ; foreword by Marko Z̆ivković
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 288 pages) : illustrations
Series Articulating journeys: festivals, memorials, and homecomings ; volume 1
Articulating journeys (Series) ; v. 1.
Contents Schizochronotopia or Elijah's pitfall -- Time and home -- Time and in-other -- Time and epic residues -- Prelude : a river of many names -- The georgics : an extended poetry of the land -- Conclusion : waiting for Elijah
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. Centred 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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2022)
Subject Landscapes -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Religious aspects
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Elijah the Prophet's Day -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Elijah the Prophet's Day
Historical geography
Landscapes -- Religious aspects
Landscapes -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Gacko (Bosnia and Herzegovina : Opština) -- Historical geography
Subject Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Gacko (Opština)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018023634
ISBN 9781785338571
1785338579