Population Origin Effect on Formation and Shaping of Villages in West Serbia Cover Image

Утицај порекла становништва на формирање и облик села: пример села у општини Косјерић
Population Origin Effect on Formation and Shaping of Villages in West Serbia

Author(s): Duško Kuzović
Subject(s): Demography and human biology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: organization of villages; organization of hamlets; villages in Serbia; rural settlement in Serbia; rural in Balkans; vernacular architecture of Balkans

Summary/Abstract: Kosjerić area settling happened during 18th and 19th century. Families that had moved there, brought with them certain needs and habits in: site selection, mode of agricultural production, position of the building on the plot and house shaping. The paper analyzes the influences immigrating families brought from former habitat, influences that shaped arrangement of village settling and how aforementioned impacts manifested on physical structure of hamlets and villages. Registered processes are useful for understanding current processes in the Serbian village. The paper is based on the documentation collected from 1994 to 2004.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 165
  • Page Range: 31-54
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian