Annotated Bibliography

Ali, Rabia, & Lawrence Lifschultz, eds. Why Bosnia? Stony Creek, CT: The Pamphleteer's Press, 1993.

A collection of more than 30 articles on the continuing war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from a number of different viewpoints.

Andric, Ivo. The Bridge on the Drina. Various publishers.

Although Andric actually spent much of his life outside of Bosnia, this novel/chronicle is highly evocative of everyday life in Bosnia during the Turkish period and under Austro-Hungarian rule.

Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review. Special Issue: War Among the Yugoslavs. Volume 11, Nos. 1&2, Spring and Fall, 1993.

Contains articles by 17 anthropologists, including representatives from Serbia and Croatia, on the war and its social and cultural implications. An excellent compilation.

Banac, Ivo. "The Fearful Asymmetry of War: The Causes and Consequences of Yugoslavia's Demise." Daedalus 121, 2 (1992): 141-174.

A useful, readable, and objective account of the main factors leading to the disintegration of former Yugoslavia.

Bringa, Tone. Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming January 1996.

An interesting study of national identity, especially as it is expressed through women's lives in a small, multi-ethnic village in Central Bosnia in the mid-1980s.

Evans, Arthur E. Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot During the Insurrection August and September 1875. Longmans, Green & Co., 1877. Reprint. Salem, NH: Ayer, 1970.

The same Sir Arthur Evans who reconstructed the palace at Knossos. In a remarkable time of chaos and anarchy, he and his brother traveled by foot through a dangerous Turkish Bosnia.

FAMA Sarajevo Survival Guide, Workman Publishing, 1994.

A send up of the Michellin guides, focusing on Sarajevo under siege. The pictures of destruction may make you weep, especially if you knew the city before the war. The recipe sections will make you wonder how anyone survives.

Filipovic;, Zlata. Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo. New York: Viking, 1994.

Zlata brings us glimpses of daily life, through her own words, of the siege of Sarajevo. Itreminds us that even in the most extreme circumstances life goes on.

Fine, John V.A. The Bosnian Church: A New Interpretation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.

An interesting study of the Bogomil "heresy" in late medieval Bosnia.

Glenny, Misha. The Fall of Yugoslavia. New York and London: Penguin Books, 1992.

An excellent, non-academic book about the demise of Yugoslavia. Glenny, longtime Balkan regional reporter for the BBC, covers the personalities, politics, and policies which have led to the continuing tragedy of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Gutman, Roy. A Witness to Genocide. New York: Macmillan, 1993.

A very personal and close look at the "ethnic cleansing" of Bosnia by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Includes photos of the concentration camps and the destruction in Bosnia.

Lockwood, William G. European MuslimsEconomy and Ethnicity in Western Bosnia. New York: Academic Press (subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), 1975.

Lockwood, the first American anthropologist to do extended fieldwork in Bosnia, rewrote his dissertation on ethnic relations and village life around the western Bosnian market town of Bugojno.

Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.

As the introduction states, "This book is about Homer." Lord uses the living singers of talesthe epic folk poets of Bosniato illuminate aspects of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Maners, Lynn D. "The Social Lives of Dances in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Cultural Performance and the Anthropology of Aesthetic Phenomena." Ph.D. diss., Department of Anthropology, UCLA, 1994.

This dissertation by the second and last American cultural anthropologist to have done doctoral fieldwork in ex-Yugoslav Bosnia examines the attempt by the Yugoslav state to create national symbols through the performance of folklore material. Although the research was done in the immediate pre-war period, a prologue and epilogue discuss the war and its implications.

Thompson, Mark. A Paper House. Pantheon, 1992.

Subtitled "The Ending of Yugoslavia," this is a useful companion piece to Glenny's book, covering a broader range.

Woodward, Susan L. Balkan Tragedy, Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, 1995.

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