Original scientific paper
On the Traces of the Zadruga among the Bunjevci of South Hungary
Milana Černelić
; Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In presenting the traces of the zadruga (co-operative rural community) among ethnic groups of Bunjevci in the vicinity of Baja, South Hungary, the author first of all gives the results of field research which she conducted in this area in 1984. Although this research showed that one can get only a fragmentary view of the communal form of life among the Bunjevci, the results were all the more significant since there is no ethnological literature pertaining to the zadruga among these groups of Bunjevci. Literature on the zadruga among the Bunjevci is in general also scarce. Although zadruge (plur.) and their basic determinants are mentioned in many articles, this data is completely generalized and scarce. The field work among Bunjevac ethnic groups in South Hungary, besides locating traces of this form of living, also relieved data on transitional forms of family life, from the zadruga to the nuclear family. After reviewing the traces of the zadruga among Bunjevci in South Hungary, the author attempts to compare them with zadruge among Bunjevci in Bačka in Yugoslavia. The data on Yugoslav Bunjevac zadruge has also been collected, primarily, as a result of the author's own field work, which, in comparison with research in Hungary, produced a fuller and more detailed overview of the Bunjevac population in Bačka.
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127676
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Publication date:
30.11.1990.
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