Women's Individual Property in South Slavic Zadrugas
Women's Individual Property in South Slavic Zadrugas
Author(s): Tihana PetrovićContributor(s): Vera Andrassy (Translator), Irena Naglić (Editor)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: women's property; osobac; zadruga; dowry; selling eggs and fruits and vegetables;
Summary/Abstract: Within the south Slavonic zadruga individual properly was permitted and was known under various names, the most widespread being osobac which is also used in ethnological literature. Although men were allowed to own individual property, it was more typical of women. The female osobac usually consisted of money (her dowry), cattle or land which the woman brought into the zadruga on her marriage or acquired by working in the zadruga or outside it. In some zadrugas or in most zadrugas in one area the rules regarding the osobac were different. The reasons for these differences, which may have resulted from different traditions or external circumstances, should form the subject of separate studies.
Journal: Studia ethnologica Croatica
- Issue Year: 1991
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 193-200
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English