Introduction of War Among the Yugoslavs

This Issue presents American and West European anthropological perspectives on recenl events prior to the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia Included are articles by anthropologists from Croatia and Serbia which deal directly With the war and its Impacl on their respective societies. The first group of essays should be understood as background to armed struggle involving violent death, destruction. and bereavement and to those tragedies still in the making. The horrors associated with events in this Balkan setting are unparalleled in Europe since World War Two