The New Bosnian Mosaic

"'The New Bosnian Mosaic offers a penetrating anthropological gaze at the complex world of Bosnia today. The book both broadens and deepens our knowledge of the lived experience of war and reconstruction. A very successful integration of large historical questions and ethnographic realities, a rich source and an important contribution.' David A. Kideckel, Central Connecticut State University, USA 'Bougarel has assembled empirically rich and intellectually stimulating explorations of the inner complexity of post-war Bosnian societies. With their emphasis on ""local"" views and practices in a context of competitive war-related claims and intrusive international agency, these anthropological and ethnographic perspectives open new vistas on post-conflict transitions.' Professor Michael Pugh, University of Bradford, UK ’...a collection of well-researched chapters authored primarily by anthropologists studying sociocultural changes in postwar Bosnia. The authors present Bosnia in its complexity, yet do so understandably, a distinct improvement over other works...which tend toward either narrow technical concerns or sweeping generalities. The high quality of scholarship in this book... distinguishes itself by filling in some of the lacunae in what we know about postwar societies. The chapters, however, avoid generalization or comparison to cases outside the former Yugoslavia, instead dwelling on the rich detail gained from ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 1999 and 2003, pivotal years for Bosnia.’ The Russian Review 'The New Bosnian Mosaic takes on...difficult questions about the postwar situation in Bosnia with éclat. This edited collection provides a set of empirically informed and ethically honest reports on the cultural self-understsanding and social life of people in Bosnia today.' Slavic Review 'Despite the hundreds of works dedicated to the study of Bosnia, none have made as much effort to unearth the societal road blocks to progress in Bosnia; by doin"