It began in Zagreb in 1937, when a group of student friends suggested that I write for the Yugoslav press a series of articles on the position of Moslem women. The students were bitter about the “enslavement” of their sisters who had been married in traditional manner. I was not very enthusiastic about attacking the women’s veil or the lattice window, but I was willing to study and report on Bosnian family life. It was the end of the spring-summer term, and we drew up a questionnaire which the students took home with them during their summer vacation. It was to be a small research effort into the domestic way of life of the Bosnian Moslem. [...]

Und so stehen die Räte vor neuen Aufgaben im Dorf. Diese Aufgaben ergeben sich aus der sich entfaltenden sozialistischen Umgestaltung der Landwirtschaft. Damit sind auch gewaltige Aufgaben der Umgestaltung der gesamten bäuerlichen Lebensweise verbunden.[...]