Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, Religion & Spirituality
| Author: | Safet HadžiMuhamedović | ISBN: | 9781785338571 |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books | Publication: | April 25, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Safet HadžiMuhamedović |
| ISBN: | 9781785338571 |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Publication: | April 25, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
