| Included Work | Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith), 1863-1944. Some tribal origins, laws, and customs of the Balkans. |
| Included Work | Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith), 1863-1944. High Albania and its customs in 1908. |
| Included Work | Emadi, Hafizullah Women's emancipation and strategy of development in Albania. |
| Included Work | Erlich, Vera St. Last big zadrugas. |
| Included Work | Grossmith, Christopher J. Cultural ecology of Albanian extended family households in Yugoslav Macedonia. |
| Included Work | Hasluck, Margaret M., 1885-1948 Couvade in Albania. |
| Included Work | Hasluck, Margaret M., 1885-1948 Unwritten law in Albania. |
| Included Work | Kastrati, Qazim. Some sources on the Unwritten Law in Albania. |
| Included Work | Lemel, Harold Walter. Rural land privatisation and distribution in Albania. |
| Included Work | Nicholson, Beryl. Tractor, the shop, and the filling station. |
| Included Work | Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie. Culture summary, Albanians. |
| Included Work | Senturia, Kirsten Diana White, 1965- Woman's work is never done, women's work and pregnancy outcome in Albania. |
| Included Work | Shryock, Andrew. Autonomy, entanglement, and the feud. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF World Cultures. Europe
eHRAF World Cultures. Europe. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Some tribal origins, laws, and customs of the Balkans / M. E. Durham -- High Albania and its customs in 1908 / M. Edith Durham -- Women's emancipation and strategy of development in Albania / Hafizullah Emadi -- Last big zadrugas : Albanian extended families in the Kosovo region / Vera St. Erlich -- The cultural ecology of Albanian extended family households in Yugoslav Macedonia / C. J. Grossmith -- Couvade in Albania / Mrs. Margaret Hasluck -- The unwritten law in Albania / by the late Margaret Hasluck ; edited by J. H. Hutton -- Some sources on the Unwritten Law in Albania / Qazim Kastrati -- Rural land privatisation and distribution in Albania : evidence from the field / Harold Lemel -- The tractor, the shop, and the filling station : work migration as self-help development in Albania / Beryl Nicholson -- Culture summary, Albanians / Stephanie Schwander -- A woman's work is never done : women's work and pregnancy outcome in Albania / Kirsten D. Senturia -- Autonomy, entanglement, and the feud : prestige structures and gender values in highland Albania / Andrew J. Shryock. |
| Scope and content |
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). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2013 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Albania. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Oct. 9, 2013). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
