Folkloric Archaism and Cultural Manipulation in Albania under Socialism

Albert Doja (1)

1 Université de Lille

This paper stems from a question on the rise of anthropology in the Southeastern “margins of Europe” during socialism, formulated with an invitation to give a presentation at a conference organized by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale (Germany) in March 2011.

Mots clés: folklore; data collection; descriptivism; nationalism; folklorism; cultural particularism; Albanologie; Albanian Studies; socialism; communist regime; Albania; Southeast Europe

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Sociologie; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Science politique

Albert Doja. Folkloric Archaism and Cultural Manipulation in Albania under Socialism. Boskovic, Aleksandar; Hann, Chris. The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991, LIT-Verlag, pp.153-174, 2013, 978-3-643-90507-9. ⟨halshs-01219607⟩