Prescribed Amnesia. Albanian Ethnogenetic Complex in the Contemporary Opinion of Macedonian Intellectual Environment Cover Image

Amnezja zaprojektowana. Albański kompleks etnogenetyczny we współczesnej ocenie macedońskiego środowiska intelektualnego
Prescribed Amnesia. Albanian Ethnogenetic Complex in the Contemporary Opinion of Macedonian Intellectual Environment

Author(s): Lech Miodyński
Subject(s): History, Education, Sociology, Local History / Microhistory, History of Education, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: contemporary Macedonia; Albanians; ethnogenetic complex; cultural identities; autochthonism

Summary/Abstract: In the independent Macedonian state few Slavic authors tried to determine comprehensively their attitude towards ethnocultural traditions and historical mythology of Albanians. The coherence of the components of their culture after 2001 was more directly questioned, when in an atmosphere of ethnic tensions the Albanian ethnogenetic complex began to be described in terms of falsification and camouflage of foreign elements. The examples show that the issues of indigenousness, language or the originality of the national program appear in this context as the evidence of the unnatural creation of the homogeneous identity in a neighboring community.

  • Issue Year: 18/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-52
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish