Waiting for Elijah

<p> <em>Waiting for Elijah</em> is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning syncretism and proximity in one of the world's most polarized landscapes the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah's Day the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation-waiting to wait-becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology nationalism and embodied memories of proximity.</p>