Paved-over Graveyards in Bosnia: The Agency of the Dead, Personal Experience Narratives, and Legends in the Media
Dados Bibliográficos
AUTOR(ES) | |
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ANO | 2025 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore |
ISSN | 1406-0949 |
E-ISSN | 1406-0949 |
DOI | 10.7592/fejf2025.96.mencej |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
In this article I discuss Bosnian Muslim narratives about traffic accidents and other misfortunes that occur in places where the dead were disturbed in their graves, transmitted orally and in the media. I first discuss vernacular notions about the dead exhibiting agency when their graves were being paved over, built over, removed or disturbed in any other way. I then discuss the roles that the narration of these stories may play for the members of the conduit. Finally, I argue that new details and interpretations that were introduced once the oral narratives entered the public media affected the overall role of the narratives about the disturbed dead – converting them from moral agents into vehicles of the ethnonationalist agenda.