Waiting for Elijah

Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the worlds most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijahs 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 situationwaiting to waitbecomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity.