Albanians / M. E. Durham [and ten others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durham, M. E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Albania.

Ethnology.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2013.

Summary:

This collection of 13 documents, all in English, is concerned primarily with the people and culture of twentieth-century Albania, and covers a wide range of ethnographic data ranging in time from approximately 1900 to 2003. Probably the best general ethnographies on the traditional culture of the Albanians will be found in Durham (1928, 1910), and Hasluck (1954). These studies emphasize the time period from 1900 to 1910. These three documents discuss tribal groupings, law, blood feuds, the Albanian family, property, sorcery and witchcraft, medicine, marriage, women's status, religion, and concepts of honor. The Albanian "zadrugas" or extended families are topics found in Erlich (1976), and Grossmith (1976). Erlich discusses extended families as they exist in the Kosovo region, while Grossmith describes these families among Muslim Albanians. Although women's status in the society is discussed in many of the documents in this collection, this topic is given particular emphasis in Emadi (1992), Shryock (1988), and Senturia (1997). Other subjects of interest in this collection are: the couvade in Alabania and its presence in other parts of Europe (Hasluck, 1939); migration of Albanian workers to other parts of Europe (Nicholson, 2004); and problems in land privatization in changing from collective to private ownership (Lemel).

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