Özet:

The number of work focused on the culture and daily life of the Balkan communities in Turkish is quite small. The book evaluated in this study focuses on the daily life of people living in the capital Saraybosna of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of cultural importance in the Balkans. The book is based on a doctoral study by Halide Velioğlu at the University of Texas in 2011 titled Bosniak Sentiments: Poetic and Mundane Life of Impossible Longings. This study is an important ethnographic study in terms of the study of the sociological effects of the war by focusing on the daily life of the four families living in Saraybosna, the construction of the Boşnak national identity, the traces of the Serbian national identity in the collective memory of the Boşnak, the identification of ethnic and religious membership in the Boşnak identity, the interpretation of the Ottoman past in the Balkans, and the various findings and assessments related to the topics. This article aims to evaluate both the content and methodology of the book.