During his long and distinguished career, anthropologist Joel Martin Halpern has worked in many areas of the globe including Laos, Lapland, and the Balkans. He was able to turn his dissertation at Columbia University into his first book (A Serbian Village) and since that time he has returned for fieldwork numerous times. This digital collection from the Credo Project at the University of Massachusetts brings together over 1,400 photographs taken by Halpern during his research trips to Macedonia between 1954 and 1978. As the introduction to the site notes "The number of these visits combined with the dense documentation that resulted provides a rare opportunity to examine long term diachronic patterns in cultural change." Visitors can make their way through the photographs, which are organized chronologically and geographically. Each photo has a caption provided by Ljupco Risteski of the University of Skopje in Macedonia. It's a fascinating portrait and one that will be of interest to anthropologists and those persons with an interest in southeastern Europe.
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