The ecological transformation of a resettled area, pig herders to settled farmers in Central Serbia (Sumadija, Yugoslavia) during the 19th and 20th centuries

Authors

Joel Halpern, University of Massachusetts, AmherstFollow

Publication Date

January 1999

Journal or Book Title

Transhumant Pastoralism in Southern Europe: Recent Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Ethnology

Abstract

A vegetarian has a difficult time finding a suitable restaurant in Serbia — the featured dishes are meat, potatoes with varieties of pork a favorite as in the grilled skewer of meat known as raznjici, the pork equivalent of shiskebab. Some of the folk restaurants now feature corn bread, proja, formerly a basic of the peasant diet and now a romantic speciality. These dietary patterns represent a cycling of time, a link to past patterns of livestock raising — of the herding of pigs in forests. A tourist travelling

Comments

Archaeolingua © 1999

Recommended Citation

Halpern, Joel, "The ecological transformation of a resettled area, pig herders to settled farmers in Central Serbia (Sumadija, Yugoslavia) during the 19th and 20th centuries" (1999). Transhumant Pastoralism in Southern Europe: Recent Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Ethnology. 64.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/anthro_faculty_pubs/64