Wearing Hijab in Sarajevo: Dress Practices and the Islamic Revival in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina

This essay observes contemporary Islamic dress practices in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a catalyst throwing into relief various tensions within Bosnian society – not only between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats, but among Bosniaks themselves. Based on fieldwork carried out in Sarajevo, it looks at how people e...

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Croatian and Serbian
Cultural identity
Dresses
Ethnicity
Ethnography
Females
Fieldwork
Gender identity
Hijab (Custom)
Hijabs
Islam
Islamic clothing
Modernity
Muslims
Orientalism
Racial Differences
Religion
Self concept
Slavic culture
Socialism
Traditions
Veils
Women
World wars
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