BOJKA MILICIC

I am a cultural anthropologist. A native of Croatia, I studied ethnology and indology at the University of Zagreb. I earned my MA and PhD in anthropology at the University of Utah. Research Topics: Kinship, family, marriage; gender; ethnohistory; network analysis; symbolic anthropology: symbolism of the body, menstrual beliefs and taboos, color symbolism; the structure of cosmological systems; cognitive anthropology: modularity of the mind; origin of language; children's acquisition of language; literary theory; travel writing as genre. The methodology I use includes: graph theory and application of graph-theoretic models on trade networks, symbolic systems, kinship structures, gender and intra-family relationships; network analysis; qualitative research.