KOLEKSIONI I FOTOGRAFIVE NË ARKIVIN E KOSOVËS SI BURIM PËR KËRKIME ETNOGRAFIKE
THE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE KOSOVO ARCHIVE AS A SOURCE FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

Summary/Abstract: Historical scholarship, as well as other sciences concerned with illuminating the human past, usually devotes its attention to written sources and neglects other types of sources, such as narratives or memoirs, oral, photographic, etc., wrongly considering them to carry less data and thus to be less valuable for study. However, photographs, either as material within an archival fund or as part of a special collection of photographs held by private owners or collectors or in archives, represent important documentary assets for identifying and illuminating the cultural heritage of a community or country, and as such are a valuable source for research in the field of history in general and ethnography in particular. The Archive of Kosovo has a rich collection of photographs of personalities, events, monuments and various objects, neighbourhoods, bazaars, houses, streets, crafts and artisans of the time, which provide us with important data for research and studies in the field of cultural heritage in general. Considering this fact, in our article we will treat and consider those photographs from the collection of Kosovo Archive that provide us with information and help us in further research in the above mentioned areas.

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