Meetings, commemorations, journals and ethnic identity. The Albanians in Romanian through sociological and anthropological theories Cover Image

Întâlniri, comemorări, reviste și identitate etnică. Albanezii din România prin teoriile sociologice și antropologice.
Meetings, commemorations, journals and ethnic identity. The Albanians in Romanian through sociological and anthropological theories

Author(s): Zsuzsa Plainer
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social Theory, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: Albanians from Romania; ethnic networks; state-based ethnic policies; remaking ethnic borders;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to find a theoretical framework suitable to grasp the Albanians from Romania, a minority, which has been included in the category of „other ethnics” in the census. Framing the issue through the notions of the Barthian theories on ethnic borders as well as the idea of ethnic networks coined by Handemann, we tried to reveal, that the identity politics of the Romanian state plays a major role in the remaking of the ethnic identity of the Albanians from this coutry.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 311-319
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian