ANTHRCUL 101 1st Edition Lecture 8Outline of Last Lecture I. Intro to the LectureII. Living with DifferenceIII. Nations and NationalitiesIV. Roots and Results of Ethnic Conflicta. Three Theories of Ethnic Violence:V. Background: Breakdown of YugoslaviaVI. Background: Bosnian War Outline of Current Lecture I. Film Setup: We are All NeighborsII. Specific Film Viewing QuestionsIII. Film Notes: We Are All NeighborsCurrent Lecture1/30: We Are All NeighborsIV. Film Setup: We are All Neighborsa. Anthropologist Tone Bringa returns in 1993 to film the village where she had previously conducted ethnographic research in the 1980sb. At the time of the war, Bosnia is a multiethnic state: i. Bosnian Muslim, Croat Catholic, Serbian Orthodox, Other…c. Filmed in a Bosnian village with Croat Catholics and Bosnian Muslims who grew up togetheri. All share Slavic descentV. Specific Film Viewing Questionsa. How do social divisions in Getting Ghost/House We live in compare or contrast tothose in Bosnia?b. How did the war change notions of religious and ethnic identities in the Bosnian village?c. Can you imagine pre-war relationships between Bosnians and Croats in the village ever returning?VI. Film Notes: We Are All NeighborsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. Interviewing people while they work in their homes: can hear the fighting in the backgroundb. School is closed, some children sent away from the city for safety – windows vibrate from shellingc. 2/3 Muslim, 1/3 Catholic in Sarajevo: people are dear friends even though they practice different religionsd. Men go to war, women say they have it worse: everything falls on them while themen are fighting – and the men are getting paid for iti. Men wait, spend time chopping woodii. Join wives in doing chorese. Sarajevo is exactly on a boundary line – hope to remain neutral with Geneva Peace Plan negotiationsf. Only a few Muslims in the village are still working, but even they don’t know what will happen nextg. Croatian Defense Force (Catholics) are in control in the market town, many buildings are flying Croatian flags – nationalism is confusing to many, who have only known themselves as Yugoslavians, it never mattered who you wereh. Fighting is now Croat versus Muslim, neighbors in the village – not against Serbsi. “We’re all neighbors and we’ll have to live together afterwards.” j. Muslims have displaced some Catholics – not always Serbsk. People are forbidden to gather in public, even to pray, in groups larger than 3l. Catholics have to increasingly describe themselves as Croatsm. Tensions have caused people to start thinking differently about their old friends who are of the other religion, can’t trust each othern. People flee their villages when the violence reaches them, then they can’t get back in if Croats took over the town – in this town, Croat houses were fine but Muslim houses were destroyed o. People are being killed by their next door neighborsp. Now the two groups see it as impossible to ever live with the other
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