The daughter who gave up her inheritance

Ethnography of women’s inheritance rights and their application in contemporary Macedonian context

Bibliographic Data

ID14713579
AuthorsAna Ashtalkovska Gajtanoska (0000-0002-4219-2800, Institute of public health of Republic of Macedonia, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue2
Publication date2021-12-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEtnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0353-1589 • E-ISSN: 2334-8801
PublisherUniversity of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy - Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21301/eap.v12i2.12
OpenAlexW2753819823
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This text examines the experiences of several women ethnologists / anthropologists in regard to women’s inheritance rights and the traditional practices used in contemporary context in Macedonia. Women’s inheritance rights and traditional norms, which, according to the ideal model, recommend that a woman cannot be an heir of immovable property, are among the main associations of patriarchy on the Balkans. The women interlocutors in this research consistently hold on to the thesis that the term “patriarchy” is inadequate for describing in general terms the status of women in the radically divided periods of the traditional past or the contemporary context. Therefore, this situation entails a great methodological challenge in the context of the research theme, when the experiences from the everyday life of the researchers seem to contradict their theses in regard to patriarchy

Context (archaeology · Daughter · Epistemology · Genealogy · Ideal (ethics · Immovable property · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Kinship · Macedonian · Patriarchy · Political science · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Theme (computing · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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