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  • Beekeeping in the End Times

    by Larisa Jašarevic ...
    Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together. Still, the tale suggests, the angels live in anxious anticipation of the End. Local beekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina retell the old tale with growing unease, as their honeybees weather the ground ... Read more

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  • Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market

    Intimate Debt

    by Larisa Jašarevic ...
    Larisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all existing on the world's margins, Bosnians today are concerned with the good life and are as entangled in consumer debt as everyone else. The insecurities of living in an economy dominated by informal networks of trade, personal credit, and indebtedness are ... Read more

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  • Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts II

    Baltic, Eastern European, and Post-USSR Case Studies

    by James M. Nyce, Andreas Umland, Alexandra Coțofană, Larisa Jasarevic, Zlatina Bogdanova, Sibelan Forrester, Gabriel Girigan, Reet Hiiemäe0, Danijela Jerotijević1, Iveta Leitane2, René Provis3, Ioana Repciuc4, Jessica Pollock5 ...
    Series Book 173 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post- USSR societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that the idea that religion and magic are connected to each other in some consistent, universal way may be nothing more than a reminiscence from nineteenth ... Read more

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  • The Elephant in the Brain

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  • Mindware

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  • Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

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  • Bozo Sapiens

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  • Memory Speaks

    On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self

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