EXTENDED FAMILY GROUP IN OPLENAC AREA UP TO THIS CENTURY

Abstract

According to many sources (medieval document attesting presents by Serbian reigns, Turkish registers of XV and XVI centuries, Austrian occupation 1721 register), the folk tradition about village origin and memories about migration settlement of several families, especially XIX century registers which are detaile, Author fallows the transformation of family life, especially concerning the number and frequency of large family groups, coming to the conclusion that such groups are in the continuous process of emerging and disappearing within one family. It is interchanging with the living mode known as »inkoština«, not being the static mode of living around same home, accordingly it follows the biological development of economical separation, latest in third generation of each family.