Resources about Bosnia

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You can find many resources on Bosnian literature (and other Balkan countries)

http://balkanbook.com/bosnia-and-herzegovina/

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Although this book is about the whole Balkan women in the Ottoman period, 4 of the articles are about the Bosnian women. I haven't read it since the ink is still wet but I think it would be a nice source.

Women in The Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History
Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick, eds.
London: I.B. Tauris, 2007
ISBN 9781845115050
375 pp, ill.

Publisher's blurb:

Women in the Ottoman Balkans were founders of pious endowments, organizers of labour and conspicuous consumers of western luxury goods; they were lovers, wives, castaways, divorcees, widows, the subjects of ballads and the narrators of folk tales, victims of communal oppression and protectors of their communities against supernatural forces. In their daily lives, they experienced oppression and self-denial in the face of frequently unsympathetic local customs, but also empowerment, self-affirmation, and acculturation. This volume not only deepens our understanding of the distinctive contributions that women have made to Balkan history but also re-evaluates this through a more inclusive and interdisciplinary analysis in which gender takes its place alongside other categories such as class, culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood. This original and stimulating examination of the lives of Muslim, Christian and Jewish women in southeastern Europe during the centuries of Ottoman rule focuses especially on those social relations that crossed ethnic and confessional intercommunal boundaries.

Contents:

Introduction
Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick

Eastern Concubines, Western Mistresses: Prévosts Histoire d'une Grecque moderne
Olga Augustinos

Persecution and Perfidy: Women's and Men's Worldviews in Pontic Greek Folktales
Patricia Fann Bouteneff

Love and/or Death? Women and Conflict Resolution in the Traditional Bosnian
Ballad
Amila Buturovic

Women Founders of Pious Endowments in Ottoman Bosnia
Kerima Filan

Jewish Tobacco Workers in Salonika: Gender and Family in the Context of Social and Ethnic Strife
Gila Hadar

Judicial Treatment of the Matrimonial Problems of Christian Women in Rumeli During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Svetlana Ivanova

Women, Fashion, and Europeanization: The Romanian Principalities, 1750-1830
Angela Jianu

The Role of Women in Southeast European Vampire Belief
Peter Mario Kreuter

Christian Women in an Ottoman World: Interpersonal and Family Cases Brought Before the Shari'a Courts During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Cases Involving the Greek Community)
Sophia Laiou

Christian Maidens, Turkish Ravishers: The Sexualization of National Conflict in the Late Ottoman Period
Irvin Cemil Schick

Women in Ottoman Bosnia as Seen Through the Eyes of Luka Botic, a Christian Poet
Mirna Solic

Missing Husbands, Waiting Wives, Bosnian Muftis: Fatwa Texts and the Interpretation of Gendered Presences and Absences in Late Ottoman Bosnia Selma Zecevic

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It's a new book, I haven't heard of it. Thanks for the info. I'll see if I can find ut.

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Embroidered with Gold, Strung with Pearls: The Traditional Ballads of Bosnian Women
Aida Vidan
Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, June 2003, 300 pages
Bosnian traditional ballads have intrigued many by their beauty and eloquence, from Goethe's poetic interest in them in the eighteenth century to the work of twentieth-century scholars such as Milman Parry and Albert Lord. These songs are now available to the English reader in a bilingual edition offering a selection of never before translated or published materials from Harvard University's Parry Collection. The forty oral ballads, many appearing in multiple versions, were performed by Bosnian women and gathered in the Gacko region of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1930s. Using Parry and Lord as a starting point, Vidan supplements their theories with broader ethnological, cultural, and historical data. She seeks to understand issues such as the stability of the ballad, its transmission and dissemination, and its ties to mythology. She addresses an imbalance created by the pronounced focus on South Slavic epic songs in scholarly work of recent decades. While showing that each of the narrative genres in verse maintains its own stylistic features, she demonstrates that they nevertheless consist of the same basic compositional elements. In addition to comparative analysis of the materials from the Parry Collection, Vidan discusses numerous examples from published and unpublished sources in Croatian and Serbian.

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Being Muslim the Bosnian Way Identity & Community in a Central Bosnian Village: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village

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Tone Bringa
Princeton University Press (12 Dec 1995)

"I have been able to follow a Bosnian community over a period of six years, during which it has undergone dramatic changes. In the late 1980s, people were working hard against economic crisis. In 1990, they were full of optimism for the future. In January 1993, the village was in fear, surrounded by war on all sides. In April 1993, it was attacked by Croat forces. In October 1993, none of the Muslims in the village remained. They had either fled, been placed in detention camps, or been killed." Thus begins Tone Bringa's moving ethnographic account of Bosnian Muslims' living in a rural village located near Sarajevo. Although they represent a majority of the population in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Muslims are still members of a minority culture in the region that was once Yugoslavia. The question of ethno- national identity has become paramount in this society, and the author focuses on religion as the defining characteristic of identity. Bringa pays particular attention to the roles that women play in defining Muslim identities, and she examines the importance of the household as a Muslim identity sphere. In so doing, she illuminates larger issues of what constitutes "nationality." This is a gripping and heartfelt account of a community that has been torn apart by ethno-political conflict. It will attract readers of all backgrounds who want to learn more about one of the most intractable wars of the late twentieth century and the people who have been so tragically affected.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
A Note on Language and Pronunciation
Introduction
1 History, Identity, and the Yugoslav Dream
2 A Bosnian Village
3 Men, Women, and the House
4 Marriage and Marriage Procedures
5 Caring for the Living and the Souls of the Dead
6 Debating Islam and Muslim Identity
Notes
Glossary of Bosnian Terms
Bibliography
Index