Original scientific paper

Women's individual property in South Slavic Zadrugas

Tihana Petrović ; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Within the south Slavonic zadruga individual properly was permitted and was known under various names, the most widespread being osobac which is also used in ethnological literature. Although men were allowed to own individual property, it was more typical of women. The female osobac usually consisted of money (her dowry), cattle or land which the woman brought into the zadruga on her marriage or acquired by working in the zadruga or outside it. In some zadrugas or in most zadrugas in one area the rules regarding the osobac were different. The reasons for these differences, which may have resulted from different traditions or external circumstances, should form the subject of separate studies.

Keywords

women's property; dowry

Hrčak ID:

75773

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/75773

Publication date:

22.6.1992.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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