Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The Critique of Anthropology article on the German-writing tradition of Albanian Studies (or Albanologie) is republished, in a somewhat revised variant, by the major sociological journal “Soziale Welt” in Germany.
These articles aim to contribute to the debate about hegemonic relations between the West European “core” and Southeast European “margins”, by showing the links between mutually challenged and engendered quasi-anthropological traditions in the totalitarian projects of nation-building and empire-building. New aspects of a continuous resonance is addressed between a politically instrumentalized Albanian tradition of “folk” or people’s culture studies (kultura popullore) and a German-writing tradition of Volkskunde grounded in Herderean Romanticism and the imperial ambitions of the nineteenth century. The successive German traditions of National-Socialist Volkskunde and Communist East German Ethnographie, until the revised tradition of Europäische Ethnologie in the 1990s, are shown to operate from a historicist tradition rather than from a critical tradition as a reflexive successor to former Volkskunde. In the course of discussion, particular attention is given to contextualizing the historical and current production of knowledge by the German and Austrian “West” on a southeast European and Albanian culture, which is reduced to its archaic or pre-modern “traditions” and its specific or antiquated “mentalities”.
Please find below linked references for both articles:
Chair of Anthropology, Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Albania.
University Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Lille, France.
Clersé - UMR CNRS 8019, Cité Scientifique SH2-205,
59655 Lille, France.
Tel: +33(0)666362304
Email: albert.doja@univ-lille1.fr
Website: http://clerse.univ-lille1.fr/spip.php?article732
Publications: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-1637-2008
The Critique of Anthropology article on the German-writing tradition of Albanian Studies (or Albanologie) is republished, in a somewhat revised variant, by the major sociological journal “Soziale Welt” in Germany.
These articles aim to contribute to the debate about hegemonic relations between the West European “core” and Southeast European “margins”, by showing the links between mutually challenged and engendered quasi-anthropological traditions in the totalitarian projects of nation-building and empire-building. New aspects of a continuous resonance is addressed between a politically instrumentalized Albanian tradition of “folk” or people’s culture studies (kultura popullore) and a German-writing tradition of Volkskunde grounded in Herderean Romanticism and the imperial ambitions of the nineteenth century. The successive German traditions of National-Socialist Volkskunde and Communist East German Ethnographie, until the revised tradition of Europäische Ethnologie in the 1990s, are shown to operate from a historicist tradition rather than from a critical tradition as a reflexive successor to former Volkskunde. In the course of discussion, particular attention is given to contextualizing the historical and current production of knowledge by the German and Austrian “West” on a southeast European and Albanian culture, which is reduced to its archaic or pre-modern “traditions” and its specific or antiquated “mentalities”.
Please find below linked references for both articles:
- Doja, Albert (2014) “The Beautiful Blue Danube and the Accursed Black Mountain Wreath: German and Austrian Kulturpolitik of Knowledge on Southeast Europe and Albania”, Soziale Welt: Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, vol. 65 (3), pp. 317-343, doi:10.5771/0038-6073-2014-3-317. (http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01131763).
- Doja, Albert (2014) “From the German-speaking point of view: Unholy Empire, Balkanism, and the culture circle particularism of Albanian studies”, Critique of Anthropology, vol. 34 (3), 2014, pp. 290-326,doi:10.1177/0308275X14531834. (http://coa.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/34/3/290?ijkey=v8Qyp8AalZPpTwE&keytype=ref). (http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01133422).
Chair of Anthropology, Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Albania.
University Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Lille, France.
Clersé - UMR CNRS 8019, Cité Scientifique SH2-205,
59655 Lille, France.
Tel: +33(0)666362304
Email: albert.doja@univ-lille1.fr
Website: http://clerse.univ-lille1.fr/spip.php?article732
Publications: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-1637-2008
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