Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime

by Ivana Macek

Book Overview

Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the creativity with which they responded to desperate circumstances.

Ivana Maček, an anthropologist who grew up in the former Yugoslavia,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221893
• ISBN13: 9780812221893
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"