> The leader French publisher in humanities and social sciences L'Harmattan
> is
> pleased to announce a new book in Albanian Anthropology:
>
> Albert Doja,
> Naître 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
>
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> A review copy may be obtained from:
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> Service de Presse
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