Ideological dimensions of the “Balkan Family Pattern” in the first half of the 20th century

Hristov, Petko

doi:10.1080/1081602x.2014.892023

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“…Well-known Bulgarian-born historian Maria Todorova leveled first a criticism of the complex household of the zadruga type (Todorova, 1990), which she generalized later on more theoretical levels (Todorova, 2006). Other Southeast European scholars like Croatian-born anthropologist Jasna Capo criticized further German and Austrian interpretations of family systems in the Balkans (Capo-Zmegac, 1996; Hristov, 2014). Nonetheless, Kaser and other prominent Balkankompetent scholars in the New German-speaking School, including Kaser’s students like Ulf Brunnbauer now in Regensburg and Hannes Grandits now in Berlin, have disregarded these criticisms.…”

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“…Still, a tribal variant of the patrilineal system, identified in interwar Yugoslavia in the Dinaric mountains and characterized by overvaluation of the male line and ancestor worship (Erlich, 1966), is often “extrapolated and presented as the typical Balkan pattern” (Todorova, 2006: 206). This becomes a cornerstone for explaining the otherness of family systems in the Balkans (Hristov, 2014: 5). An East European family model, fundamentally different from the West European family model, was outlined as early as the 1960s (Hajnal, 1965), and is thought again to be indicative of a shared “Slavic tradition” (Hajnal, 1982).…”

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The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen: Knowledge production and truth claims in post-colonial post-communist context

Doja

2022

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In this paper, I show how some strands of contemporary Western scholarship in Albanian studies reproduce substantive empirical and methodological flaws and perpetuate imperial attitudes and othering stereotypes. In particular, I level a number of criticisms at what I refer to as the New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen that has colonized Albanian and more generally Southeastern European issues. I argue that disregard and patronizing of local scholars, and occasionally over-reliance on essentialized, insufficient or misinterpreted research outcomes, can be shown in the writings of various scholars that are representative of strategic othering, methodological essentialism, dubious deconstructionism and outright misinterpretation of Albanian foundational myths, national history, social structures, and cultural behavior. Arguably, this methodological imperialism reproduces a discourse of Western superiority that serves to legitimate Western political, economic and social control.

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The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen: Knowledge production and truth claims in post-colonial post-communist context

Doja

2022

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“…Thus, servility and late marriage are inferred as characteristics only of so-called ‘European Marriage Patterns’. In ethnology, however, it has already been shown that the South Slavic zadruga , recognized as the ‘Joint Family’, is not only not a predominant pattern of family household ( Todorova, 2006, p. 207 ) but rather a desirable but rarely achieved pattern in the social structure of the Balkans ( Hristov, 2014, p. 6 ).…”

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Labour migration of young women from the village to the capital in Bulgaria: A case study of woman servantry in Vakarel

Hristov,

Spasova

2024

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The article is devoted to the maiden servantry in Bulgaria – a relatively late social phenomenon, but with important cultural and social consequences. It is also an indicator of the early modernization of Bulgarian society in the first half of the twentieth century. Using the example of Vakarel in Middle Western Bulgaria, the authors define servantry as a social mediator, facilitating the spread of urban culture and European models in the Shopluk villages around the capital Sofia. The emergence and development of female servantry as an enduring and sustainable social practice charts a path of change in marriage strategies and family patterns in a small rural community and thus in society as a whole. Gradually, from an escape from the adverse socio-economic factors and the harsh life in the village, temporary employment as a servant in the home of a wealthy family in the big city became an important moment in the young girl's growth and socialization, a condition for successful realization of family strategies in the rural environment. As a social phenomenon, servanthood has remained positively valued in the collective memory of the locals as part of the oral stories told within the family.

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“…The thematic section 'In the Name of the Daughter' (Brković 2021) offers very inspirational insights. 13 Petko Hristov explains how family rituals (Serbian slava and Bulgarian sluzhba) built family ideology (Hristov 2014). 14 This university's official name is the University of Priština, which has temporarily moved to Kosovska Mitrovica, and its work is financed by the Republic of Serbia's Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development.…”

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Everyday Practices of Gender in the Serbian Community of Post-War South-East Kosovo

Zlatanović

2022

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This article aims to explore the everyday practices of gender in the Serbian community of south-east Kosovo, in a post-war context marked by sudden and radical political and social changes that deeply altered everyday life after 1999 and the establishment of the UN administration. As family and kinship ties are strongly expressed in the researched community, gender practices have been considered within that framework. This article is based on extensive multi-sited fieldwork conducted with members of the Serbian community in south-east Kosovo, and with displaced people from this region in several towns in Serbia. The field research focuses on everyday interactions and perspectives ‘from below’. The sudden and complex social and political changes that occurred after 1999 resulted in the transformation of the family structure and family roles, and thus to changes in gender practices. With the establishment of the international administration, influences linked to globalisation intensified. The migration of part of the community to Serbia, and the life of many of its members as ‘both here and there’, played an important role. Influences from Serbia, community guidance from the Serbian Orthodox Church, and changes in the ethnic and social landscape because of the war all combined to create opposing processes within the family. In family and gender relations, intensive, oppositional processes unfolded. These generated tensions within the community: the nuclearisation of the family and, for certain aspects, the liberalisation of relations in it and, at the same time, repatriarchalisation.

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Ideological dimensions of the “Balkan Family Pattern” in the first half of the 20th century

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen: Knowledge production and truth claims in post-colonial post-communist context

The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen: Knowledge production and truth claims in post-colonial post-communist context

Labour migration of young women from the village to the capital in Bulgaria: A case study of woman servantry in Vakarel

Everyday Practices of Gender in the Serbian Community of Post-War South-East Kosovo

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