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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,
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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