Blood and Seed, Trunk and Hearth: Kinship and Common Origin in Southern Albania

Gilles de Rapper (1)

1 IDEMEC - Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative

Albanian society is commonly described as tribal or clanic, i.e. a society in which kinship ties are particularly strong and structuring, including in politics. Ethnographic material collected in the South-eastern district of Devoll in the 1990s is used here to question and challenge this common image.

Mots clés: Balkans; Albanie; parenté

Mots clés: Albania; Kinship

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Gilles de Rapper. Blood and Seed, Trunk and Hearth: Kinship and Common Origin in Southern Albania. Andreas Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Pandelejmoni. Albania. Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century, LIT Verlag, pp.79-95, 2012. ⟨halshs-00400413⟩