Jelena Čvorović
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 175451 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jelena Čvorović |
| PRENOMES | Jelena |
| SOBRENOME | Čvorović |
| ASSINATURA | ČVOROVIĆ J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9045-226X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The associations of cash transfers with parental investment and couples’ fertility among low-income Serbian Roma
Welfare incentives, by providing parents access to certain resources, may increase the reliability of parental investment returns and thus increase opportunities to invest in offspring quality vs. quantity and eventually a drop in fertility. Using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 6 for Serbian Roma, this study examined whether improvements in resources, driven by cash transfers, encouraged parental greater engagement per child and a drop in …
The impact of welfare on maternal investment and sibling competition
Siblings compete for limited parental resources, which can result in a trade-off between family size and child growth outcomes. Welfare incentives may improve parental circumstances in large families by compensating for the additional costs of an extra child and increasing the resources available to a family. The improvements in conditions may influence parents to increase their investment, expecting greater returns from the investment in child s…
Do unwanted children face growth penalties in resource poor environments? Evidence from Roma Settlements in Serbia
In a high fertility context, research on the relationship between parental investment, unwanted births and child nutritional outcomes is limited. The implications may be especially relevant for children coming from the most disadvantaged backgrounds and at increased risk of nutritional deprivation. This study assessed the association between maternal investment, unwanted births disaggregated into mistimed and unwanted children, and child nutritio…
Maternal age at marriage and child nutritional status and development
Objective: This study aimed to assess whether maternal age at first marriage is associated with nutritional and developmental penalties in Roma children. Design: Roma nationally representative population-based study. Proxies for child nutritional outcomes included children’s individual-level height-for-age Z (HAZ) and weight-for-age Z (WAZ) scores, HAZ and WAZ scores below two standard deviations from the median of WHO’s reference population (chi…
Stunting, maternal investment, and early child development in Serbian Roma children aged 36-59 months
Stunting has shown negative associations with poor child developmental indicators. However, in poor ethnic minority populations the evidence for associations of anthropometric growth indicators and child development is limited. This study examined associations between stunting, height for age z scores (HAZ) and other determinants, with Early Child Development (ECD) among children in poor Roma communities. Publicly available data from Multiple Ind…
Paternal investment, stepfather presence and early child development and growth among Serbian Roma
Research on paternal investment and child growth and development is limited outside of high-income countries. Using nationally representative data from low-resource Serbian Roma communities, this study examined father investment (direct care), its predictors and the associations between paternal investment, stepfather presence and child physical growth and early development. The sample included 1222 children aged 35–59 months, out of which 235 we…
Stature and education among Roma women
The association between body height and educational outcome, as measured by years of completed schooling, was investigated among Roma women in Serbia in 2014–2018. Height, demographic data, level of schooling and reproductive histories were collected from 691 Roma women aged between 16 and 80 years living in rural settlements in central and western Serbia. Multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that short stature was associated with an i…
The effect of social assistance on kin relationships
This paper discusses the effects of social assistance on kinship relationships in Roma, a disadvantaged European minority population, and how variation in kin support affects self-reported health and reproductive success. Data were collected in 2016-7 in several rural Roma settlements in central Serbia. The sample consisted of 143 men and 221 women. Demographic information (e.g., age, gender, educational level, marital and reproductive history, l…
Diabetes Mellitus Prevalence Among Traditional Roma Women in Serbia
This is in response to the article by Brož and Nunes (2019) regarding the prevalence of diabetes among Serbian Roma women. The authors inadvertently refer to only one instead of two recent studies on Roma women’s health conducted among two separate Roma groups: the Romanian Roma in northern Serbia (N=82) (Coe & Čvorović, 2017) and the Gurbeti Roma (N=414) from western Serbia (Čvorović, 2018). In both studies, the samples were voluntary, health wa…
Self-Rated Health and Teenage Pregnancies in Roma Women
This paper reports on the association between early marriage, age at first reproduction and height, as an indicator of childhood environment, and maternal health outcomes among traditional Roma women in Serbia. Demographic data, marital and reproductive histories, height, weight and self-rated health were collected from 414 Roma women living in rural settlements in Serbia in 2015–2017. Data analysis showed that higher age and weight were associat…
The Differential Impact of Religion on Self-Reported Health Among Serbian Roma Women
Happy marriages are all alike
We describe how self-rated health varies with gender, type of marriage (marriage of choice vs arranged marriage), and cultural traits among Serbian Roma. Data on 91 men and 113 women (self-reported health, demographics and family dynamics) were collected in 2016 in Roma communities in Belgrade, Serbia. Roma in arranged marriage differ on a number of variables in regard to Roma in marriage of choice but not in regard to self-rated health. Gender s…
Influence of maternal height on children’s health status and mortality
Role models and health of Serbian Roma women
We examine role model choice among Serbian Roma women and describe the relationships found among preferred role model type and socio-economic and health variables. Data were collected in 2015-2016 from 274 Roma women, averaging 55 years of age. Most often, Roma women chose female family members as role models, but some women also chose role models outside their ethic group. We discuss how the values of the two disparate role model choices, i.e., …
John Henryism, Gender and Self-reported Health Among Roma/Gypsies in Serbia
Reproductive Investment and Health Costs in Roma Women
In this paper, we examine whether variation in reproductive investment affects the health of Roma women using a dataset collected through original anthropological fieldwork among Roma women in Serbia. Data were collected in 2014-2016 in several Roma semi-urban settlements in central Serbia. The sample consisted of 468 Roma women, averaging 44 years of age. We collected demographic data (age, school levels, socioeconomic status), risk behaviors (s…
The health of Romanian Gypsy women in Serbia
Indigenous people are over-represented among the world's disadvantaged; their health is influenced by lack of access to critical resources including health care and by their cultural practices. We report on the health and the health practices of one group of indigenous women, the Roma/Gypsies of northern Serbia who live in poverty, reside in sub-standardized housing in segregated communities, and are poorly educated and stigmatized. We describe t…
Fertility Differentials Among Serbian Jews
Recent studies tend to validate the important role played by culture and especially religion in fertility behaviours. This paper investigates a link between religiosity and fertility among Serbian Jewish populations, namely the Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. It is found that among Serbian Jews, in spite of general low levels of fertility, religiousness (measured by time devoted to religious activities) and ethnic origin contribute to the fertility …
Serbian Gypsy Witch Narratives
A salient characteristic of the Serbian Gypsies' demography is an unusually high percentage of infant and child mortality. This paper discusses the narration of Serbian Gypsy women who have lost at least one child to 'the deadly doings of witches'. These narratives serve to communicate the mother's innocence before the local community, as a means of justification of the unfortunate event. The mother's kinship group's endorsement of such talk incl…
Son preference among the historical Sandzak Muslim population
This paper attempts to explain parental son preferences among historical Muslim population in the Sandžak region, southwestern Serbia. The paper draws upon data collected in the course of anthropological fieldwork studies in the region. The fieldwork was performed among Muslim and Christian families in Serbian rural area of Sandžak, measuring maternal fitness in relation to several variables. The data set comes from 120 women born between 1880-19…
Juvenile marriages, child-brides and infant mortality among Serbian gypsies
Gypsies/Roma make up the largest minority in Europe. Roma communities tend to be segregated and characterized by poverty, unemployment, poor education, and poor quality housing. So far, the European strategy for Gypsy/Roma integration proved insufficient because it fails to account to the normative nature of the isolationist and ethnocentric nature of certain elements of Gypsy culture, as well as the deep and mutual distrust between Gypsies and n…
Gypsy stories
This paper discusses the performance of narratives as adaptive cultural behaviors among Gypsies in Mačva county, western Serbia. Storytelling is a universal activity and may well be oldest of the arts. It has always provided a vehicle for the expression of ideas, particularly in societies relying on oral tradition. Gypsies are present in Serbia since the Middle Ages, living within a larger Serbian culture as a minority group. Mačva, an agricultu…
Body mass index in Serbian Roma
Serbian Gypsy Narrative
This paper discusses the narration of a Serbian Gypsy who adopted Serbian ethnic identity. Still today in Serbia, Gypsy culture remains in the oral form. Their narratives tell as much about their present as about their past. Several themes underlying the discussion about Gypsy ethnic flexibility are explored: their position in relation to non-Gypsies, the way they perceive it; varying attitudes about ethnicity within Gypsy communities in contrast…
Women's autonomy and domestic violence in the Sandžak region
This paper seeks to shed light on a specific aspect of domestic violence wife beating in the Sandžak region, southwestern Serbia. The paper draws upon data collected in the course of a study on women's autonomy in the region. Violence against women in this area is closely linked to the institution of marriage, where related norms and cultural practices reinforce women's powerlessness, exposing them to domestic violence
Paternal investment, stepfather presence and early child development and growth among Serbian Roma
Research on paternal investment and child growth and development is limited outside of high-income countries. Using nationally representative data from low-resource Serbian Roma communities, this study examined father investment (direct care), its predictors and the associations between paternal investment, stepfather presence and child physical growth and early development. The sample included 1222 children aged 35–59 months, out of which 235 we…
Gypsies Drown in Shallow Water
The continuance of oral traditions and storytelling is one of the most significant mechanisms in the preservation and constitution of generations of young Serbian Gypsies as separate ethnic/tribal groups. Traditional stories are repeated, consciously or unconsciously, because of their particular influence on behavior. The majority of the Gypsy traditional stories concern the most important, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous aspect of the G…
The effect of social assistance on kin relationships
This paper discusses the effects of social assistance on kinship relationships in Roma, a disadvantaged European minority population, and how variation in kin support affects self-reported health and reproductive success. Data were collected in 2016-7 in several rural Roma settlements in central Serbia. The sample consisted of 143 men and 221 women. Demographic information (e.g., age, gender, educational level, marital and reproductive history, l…
Serbian Gypsy Witch Narratives
A salient characteristic of the Serbian Gypsies' demography is an unusually high percentage of infant and child mortality. This paper discusses the narration of Serbian Gypsy women who have lost at least one child to 'the deadly doings of witches'. These narratives serve to communicate the mother's innocence before the local community, as a means of justification of the unfortunate event. The mother's kinship group's endorsement of such talk incl…
Serbian Gypsy Narrative
This paper discusses the narration of a Serbian Gypsy who adopted Serbian ethnic identity. Still today in Serbia, Gypsy culture remains in the oral form. Their narratives tell as much about their present as about their past. Several themes underlying the discussion about Gypsy ethnic flexibility are explored: their position in relation to non-Gypsies, the way they perceive it; varying attitudes about ethnicity within Gypsy communities in contrast…
A Gypsy, a Butterfly, and a Gadje
Serbian Gypsy narratives have a very important function in Gypsy culture—that of shaping and influencing the behaviour of those to whom the stories are told. This paper analyses two Serbian Gypsy oral narratives that place special emphasis on the kinds of behaviour that are encouraged or discouraged in everyday life, and which have presumably helped Gypsies to survive through the centuries
The ancient Greek promiscuity
Non-reproductive sex, including homosexuality, is a by-product: such behavior would be a consequence of selection for male sexual eagerness due to the significantly less parental investment in the past. Here we argue that the key element in restraining such behavior is ancestral: traditions that discourage promiscuity. The ancient Greece is selected to illustrate this thesis
Reproductive behavior, ethnicity and socio-economic status a comparison of two Serbian Gypsy groups
Based on original fieldwork in Serbia, this paper elucidates and contrasts the reproductive behavior of typically poor Gypsies with a group of much wealthier Gypsies living in a Serbian village. This paper will test two hypotheses: 1) Gypsy reproductive behavior is a result of their ethnic traditional strategy, and/or 2) Gypsy reproduction is a result of low status and being poor. This paper explores the relationship between socioeconomic status,…
Sexual and Reproductive Strategies Among Serbian Gypsies
Gypsy ethnic socialization in Serbia
Based on original fieldwork among Gypsies in Serbia, this paper explores Gypsy ethnic socialization and argues that Gypsy social isolation, to some extent, is self-imposed through the acceptance of their traditions. Close kin, particularly parents, are found to be the primary socializing agents of Gypsy children. Gypsy children have little or no contact with children from other ethnic groups. A crucial aspect of Gypsy socialization is an emphasis…
The making of the Gypsies
This paper attempts to assess the dilemma raised by anthropological discourse about the invention of traditions. Invented traditions are important symptoms and hence indicators of problems which might not otherwise be recognized, and certain developments which are difficult to identify and date. The Serbian Roma are selected to illustrate this phenomenon
A new approach to magic
This paper uses the example of traditional practices of magic to suggest ways to incorporate cultural behaviors within the evolutionary paradigm. The first suggestion is to restrict hypotheses to only identifiable variables. This means avoiding the temptation of following the nonevolutionary social sciences in the practice of basing explanations on unverifiable guesses about what beliefs (or memes in evolutionary jargon) may or may not inhabit pe…
Gypsies Drown in Shallow Water
The continuance of oral traditions and storytelling is one of the most significant mechanisms in the preservation and constitution of generations of young Serbian Gypsies as separate ethnic/tribal groups. Traditional stories are repeated, consciously or unconsciously, because of their particular influence on behavior. The majority of the Gypsy traditional stories concern the most important, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous aspect of the G…
Gypsy dragon
This paper will attempt to explain Serbian Gypsy oral narratives by applying concepts drawn from evolutionary psychology. The Gypsy story will illustrate how various narrative characteristics are used by Gypsies to employ social knowledge on local surroundings to better serve fitness solutions
Women's autonomy and domestic violence in the Sandžak region
This paper seeks to shed light on a specific aspect of domestic violence wife beating in the Sandžak region, southwestern Serbia. The paper draws upon data collected in the course of a study on women's autonomy in the region. Violence against women in this area is closely linked to the institution of marriage, where related norms and cultural practices reinforce women's powerlessness, exposing them to domestic violence
Impact of paternal investment among women in Sandzak
An evolutionary model of facultative reproductive strategies explains much of women's life history strategy in terms of the absence or presence of their fathers and parental investment they made. This paper assesses direct paternal investment and behavioral outcomes in 164 women in the Sandzak region, using human behavioral ecology approach, with a special emphasis on female reproductive strategy
A Gypsy, a Butterfly, and a Gadje
Serbian Gypsy narratives have a very important function in Gypsy culture—that of shaping and influencing the behaviour of those to whom the stories are told. This paper analyses two Serbian Gypsy oral narratives that place special emphasis on the kinds of behaviour that are encouraged or discouraged in everyday life, and which have presumably helped Gypsies to survive through the centuries
Body mass index in Serbian Roma
Serbian Gypsy Narrative
This paper discusses the narration of a Serbian Gypsy who adopted Serbian ethnic identity. Still today in Serbia, Gypsy culture remains in the oral form. Their narratives tell as much about their present as about their past. Several themes underlying the discussion about Gypsy ethnic flexibility are explored: their position in relation to non-Gypsies, the way they perceive it; varying attitudes about ethnicity within Gypsy communities in contrast…
Gypsy stories
This paper discusses the performance of narratives as adaptive cultural behaviors among Gypsies in Mačva county, western Serbia. Storytelling is a universal activity and may well be oldest of the arts. It has always provided a vehicle for the expression of ideas, particularly in societies relying on oral tradition. Gypsies are present in Serbia since the Middle Ages, living within a larger Serbian culture as a minority group. Mačva, an agricultu…
Juvenile marriages, child-brides and infant mortality among Serbian gypsies
Gypsies/Roma make up the largest minority in Europe. Roma communities tend to be segregated and characterized by poverty, unemployment, poor education, and poor quality housing. So far, the European strategy for Gypsy/Roma integration proved insufficient because it fails to account to the normative nature of the isolationist and ethnocentric nature of certain elements of Gypsy culture, as well as the deep and mutual distrust between Gypsies and n…
Son preference among the historical Sandzak Muslim population
This paper attempts to explain parental son preferences among historical Muslim population in the Sandžak region, southwestern Serbia. The paper draws upon data collected in the course of anthropological fieldwork studies in the region. The fieldwork was performed among Muslim and Christian families in Serbian rural area of Sandžak, measuring maternal fitness in relation to several variables. The data set comes from 120 women born between 1880-19…
Serbian Gypsy Witch Narratives
A salient characteristic of the Serbian Gypsies' demography is an unusually high percentage of infant and child mortality. This paper discusses the narration of Serbian Gypsy women who have lost at least one child to 'the deadly doings of witches'. These narratives serve to communicate the mother's innocence before the local community, as a means of justification of the unfortunate event. The mother's kinship group's endorsement of such talk incl…
Fertility Differentials Among Serbian Jews
Recent studies tend to validate the important role played by culture and especially religion in fertility behaviours. This paper investigates a link between religiosity and fertility among Serbian Jewish populations, namely the Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. It is found that among Serbian Jews, in spite of general low levels of fertility, religiousness (measured by time devoted to religious activities) and ethnic origin contribute to the fertility …
John Henryism, Gender and Self-reported Health Among Roma/Gypsies in Serbia
Reproductive Investment and Health Costs in Roma Women
In this paper, we examine whether variation in reproductive investment affects the health of Roma women using a dataset collected through original anthropological fieldwork among Roma women in Serbia. Data were collected in 2014-2016 in several Roma semi-urban settlements in central Serbia. The sample consisted of 468 Roma women, averaging 44 years of age. We collected demographic data (age, school levels, socioeconomic status), risk behaviors (s…
The health of Romanian Gypsy women in Serbia
Indigenous people are over-represented among the world's disadvantaged; their health is influenced by lack of access to critical resources including health care and by their cultural practices. We report on the health and the health practices of one group of indigenous women, the Roma/Gypsies of northern Serbia who live in poverty, reside in sub-standardized housing in segregated communities, and are poorly educated and stigmatized. We describe t…
Influence of maternal height on children’s health status and mortality
Role models and health of Serbian Roma women
We examine role model choice among Serbian Roma women and describe the relationships found among preferred role model type and socio-economic and health variables. Data were collected in 2015-2016 from 274 Roma women, averaging 55 years of age. Most often, Roma women chose female family members as role models, but some women also chose role models outside their ethic group. We discuss how the values of the two disparate role model choices, i.e., …
Diabetes Mellitus Prevalence Among Traditional Roma Women in Serbia
This is in response to the article by Brož and Nunes (2019) regarding the prevalence of diabetes among Serbian Roma women. The authors inadvertently refer to only one instead of two recent studies on Roma women’s health conducted among two separate Roma groups: the Romanian Roma in northern Serbia (N=82) (Coe & Čvorović, 2017) and the Gurbeti Roma (N=414) from western Serbia (Čvorović, 2018). In both studies, the samples were voluntary, health wa…
Self-Rated Health and Teenage Pregnancies in Roma Women
This paper reports on the association between early marriage, age at first reproduction and height, as an indicator of childhood environment, and maternal health outcomes among traditional Roma women in Serbia. Demographic data, marital and reproductive histories, height, weight and self-rated health were collected from 414 Roma women living in rural settlements in Serbia in 2015–2017. Data analysis showed that higher age and weight were associat…
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