Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the c[...]
Sarajevo Under Siege Anthropology in Wartime Ivana MaAiek "Original, important, and exciting. Most ethnographies of war aren't actually conducted at the epicenters of war, nor even on the front lines. Macek's is. She stands among a handful of scholars who combine true ethnography of war with endurin[...]