Interethnic Ritual Kinship as Pan-Slavism in Bosnia and Herzegovina Keith Doubt Introduction The exemplification of pan-Slavism in Bosnia and Herzegovina is found in one of its historical kinship practices, namely, the custom of interethnic ritual kinship. Culture is the shared set of normative expectations that structure social relations and common life, and culture is learned through upbringing and witnessing its exemplification in the private and public realms of the community. The Yugoslav ethnographer, Milenko Filipovi´ c wrote, ‘Ritual kinship of various forms was of great importance among South Slavs in the past, because it widened the circle of relatives beyond the family, the clan, and the tribe.’ 1 Filipovi´ c noted as well, ‘Such broth- erhoods (and sisterhoods) are frequently contracted even at present time 1 Filipovi´ c, M. (1963). ‘Forms and Functions of Ritual Kinship Among South Slavs,’ International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences , 1, p. 77. K. Doubt (B ) Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, USA e-mail: kdoubt@wittenberg.edu © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 M. Suslov et al. (eds.), Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17875-7_18 379