Open AccessPre-marital relations: Entering adulthood
Author(s) -
D Zorica Divac
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta/glasnik etnografskog instituta sanu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8259
pISSN - 0350-0861
DOI - 10.2298/gei0351097d
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , sexual life , gender studies , psychology , sociology , developmental psychology , medicine , gynecology
Investigation was carried out in north-east Serbia, in the region which is known for more freedom in male, female relations and marriages between minors. To prepare children for early marriage, the community takes care to introduce them to the world of adulthood through customs and to speed up their sexual maturity. Thus, on certain holidays, freedom in the behaviour of the young and the possibility of their getting to know each other more intimately was the accepted and publicly approved custom, although at the same time the strict rules of patriarchal morals, which prescribed the submissiveness in the behaviour of youth in daily life, were valid