Paved-over graveyards in Bosnia : the agency of the dead, personal experience narratives, and legends in the media

Mencej, Mirjam (avtor)

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.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: ethnology, folklore, the dead, graves, traffic accidents, Islam, media, nationalism, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Datum objave: 01.01.2025
• Leto izida: 2025
• Št. strani: Str. 187-212
• Številčenje: Vol. 96
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-171790
• UDK: 2-187:28(497.6)
• ISSN pri članku: 1406-0957
• DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2025.96.mencej
• COBISS.SI-ID: 246376707
• Datum objave v RUL: 02.09.2025

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Folklore
• Skrajšan naslov: Folklore
• Založnik: Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Institute of Folklore
• ISSN: 1406-0957
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24169005

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Najbolj omejujoča licenca Creative Commons. Uporabniki lahko prenesejo in delijo delo v nekomercialne namene in ga ne smejo uporabiti za nobene druge namene.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: etnologija, folkloristika, mrtvi, grobovi, prometne nesreče, islam, množični mediji, nacionalizem, Bosna in Hercegovina

Projekti

• Financer: EC - European Commission
• Številka projekta: 101095729
• Naslov: The roles of the agency of the dead in the lives of individuals in contemporary society
• Akronim: DEAGENCY

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P6-0187-2022
• Naslov: Etnološke raziskave kulturnih znanj, praks in oblik socialnosti