SOUTH SLAVIC

[Stephan Harris]

Anyone teaching courses in Slavic or South Slavic culture might want to use an excellent collection that came out recently: Bonnie Marshall and Vasa Mihailovich, TALES FROM THE HEART OF THE BALKANS (Libraries Unlimited, Englewood, Colorado)ISBN 1-56308-870-3. It has a very good historical survey of the Balkan region, complete with maps and beautiful color photographs highlighting facets of South Slavic history and folklore. The collection includes 33 folktales representing all the major ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia, including Albanians and Romany. The ethnographic commentary makes this an excellent title for enriching courses in history and culture. Because most of the tales have never been translated into English before, it is part of the core group of translated primary sources -- essential for any respectable Slavic collection. For this reason you will probably be able to find this book soon in your school library.
  -- Stephan Harris

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