Searching for Order on the Balkan Peninsula.

The Geographical Review | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

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My fieldwork is in Macedonia because jarring juxtapositions fascinate me. Picasso did it with legs and eyes; the Washington Post does it with bra ads and stories about human-rights abuses; and the Balkan Peninsula did it with cultural iconography and people--people now at war once shared villages, markets, even houses. Picasso doesn't do it any longer because he's dead; the Washington Post does it daily; it isn't done on the Balkan Peninsula any longer because ethnic cleansing and separatist movements have all but eliminated any signs of cultural ...

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