THE HOUSE AS A POPULAR SYMBOL OF THE ALBANIANS
THE HOUSE AS A POPULAR SYMBOL OF THE ALBANIANS

Summary/Abstract: To explain the house as the popular symbol of a nation is no doubt an endeavour that can be misunderstood. So I want to stress at the start that this is an attempt to study and explain, in Canetti's sense, one of the possible symbols that have been implanted in the Albanian awareness and in the lives and behaviour of the Albanians. I am sure that if you ask any Albanian what the symbol of his nation is, he will i,-,pJay :~'.. ~enTl~ uf Albanianism, the nation flag, freedoITI, the eagle, and so fOlth. l\ian./ non A~banians Inight also be irritated by what I am saying. After all, almost everybody lives in a house. Why does the house play such an important role in the Albanians' case? Here too, I wish to say from the outset that I do not in any which wish to suggest that this centrality of the house is true only among the Albanians.

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