NJË ANALIZË KRITIKE E STUDIMEVE ETNOGRAFIKE SHQIPTARE MBI SHOQËRINË E “ REAL SOCIALIZMIT” NË SHQIPËRI
NJË ANALIZË KRITIKE E STUDIMEVE ETNOGRAFIKE SHQIPTARE MBI SHOQËRINË E “ REAL SOCIALIZMIT” NË SHQIPËRI

Summary/Abstract: The aims of this article are few and shortly they can be summarized as follows. Firstly, the article attempts to bring and draw the readers’ attention to the ‘ontological’ rupture that the concept o f‘culture’ had in the ethnographic studies published during communism in Albania. Secondly, it tries to analysis how Albanian’s socialist society was portrayed in the ethnographic studies carried by Albanian scholars during communism. By reading these ethnographic studies as ‘texts’, and defining the context within which they were articulated as ‘dictatorial situation’, this work make use of the Clifford’s notion o f‘partial truths’ to understand the functionality of the ethnographical knowledge produced during the period under investigation. In general terms, in one hand such knowledge legitimated the power and existence of the communist rule and state, and on the other hand, it contributed not only to transform but also verify the existence of the dominant state ideology in everyday life practice. Thus, this article underlines the power-knowledge relationship as they were reflected in these ethnographies where the latter is used to legitimize and produce the former and the way round, by creating and sustaining a ‘hegemonic order’. Finally, the article suggests the ways how such ethnographic knowledge produced during socialism in Albania could be used by today’s scholars in developing a self-reflexive and critical anthropology ‘at home’.

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