Jelena Čvorović is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has a PhD in Anthropology from the Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of Roast Chicken and Other Gypsy Stories (2010, Hamburg: Peter Lang) and co-author (with Dr Kathryn Coe) of Storytelling around the World: Folktales, Narrative Rituals and Oral Traditions (2022, ABC Clio). She has also published journal articles and book chapters on life history, and maternal and child health.
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Unwanted Childbearing and Child Nutritional Status in the Western Balkan Roma Communities
Jelena Čvorović
This book investigates the relationship between maternal investment, unwanted births, and child nutritional outcomes in five poor communities of the Western Balkan Roma. Based on an evolutionary approach, the book directly assesses variability in Roma mothers’ parental care using data from UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys 5 and 6 for the Roma settlements in Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book includes useful information about Roma communities...
