[ALST-L] Fwd: New Book in Albanian Anthropology

[Besnik Pula]

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The leader French publisher in humanities and social sciences L'Harmattan is
pleased to announce a new book in Albanian Anthropology:

Albert Doja,
NaÓtre et grandir chez les Albanais : la construction culturelle de la
personne. - Paris : L'Harmattan : 2000. - 322 p. 24 cm. Bibliogr. p.
301-317. Index. - ISBN 2-7384-8879-X

The aim of this book is a cultural anthropological analysis of collective
representations and symbolic practices among Albanians related to childhood.
>From a social anthropological point of view, the author tries to highlight
the process of identity construction and socialisation concluding that
social and cultural identity diversities are dependent largely on
non-institutionalised educational processes.

With a markedly attempt to open to the comparative considerations of other
cultures, European and others, this book also tries to be the illustration
of a fact of general impact in anthropological theory. The needs and demands
of representing by a symbolic approach and of organising ritually the
natural process of birth as well as the cultural process of socialisation
are inherent in all human societies. Towards these events on which depend
the continuity of the community, important moments when the social
organisation meets the individual existence, all societies have elaborated
numerous and various collective representations and symbolic forms. Notably,
these understandings allow to review the whole of anthropological
perspectives, going through the refusal of considering separately
infrastructure and superstructure, inheritance and heredity, tradition and
innovation, society and individual.

Contents:
Introduction
1. Fertility reveries
	Household and family relations
	The elementary symbolism
	Psychosocial mythology and heroic patterns
	The dogma of impregnation
2. Symbolic behaviour
	The crisis of impurity
	Reconsidering couvade
	Empirical intuitions of collective wisdom
	Purification and incorporation
	Symbolic connections
3. The mythology of destiny
	The unusual marker
	Symbolic ambivalence
	Divinities
	Ideologies
4. The symbolism of the name
	Collective imagination of the "double" and incarnation
	Sense and signification
	Patronymic inscription and founding mythologies
5. The development of body
	Feeding and bringing up
	Weaning and the voice of speech
	The way to humanity
	Haircut and circumcision
	The social destiny of individual
6. The socialising enchantment
	Lyrics definition
	Melodic poetic interaction
	Interactive communication
	Semantic and functional area
Conclusion
References
Index

To order:
Publications L'Harmattan
7 rue de l'Ecole Polytechnique
75005 Paris, France

or
http://www.alapage.com/
http://www.chapitre.com/

A review copy may be obtained from:
Ms Virginie Guy Colomby
Service de Presse
Publications L'Harmattan
Phone: +33 (0) 140-467-922
Fax: +33 (0) 143-258-203
harmat at worldnet.fr
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