Arkivi etnografik si burim për historinë sociale dhe antropologjinë historike
Ethnographic archive as a source for social history and historical anthropology

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the institutionalization of ethnography as a science in Albania, the immediate task was the collection and recording of what is known as "traditional culture" of the people, which is considered to be endangered by the rapid modernization of lifestyle. In this context, the Division of Ethnography at the Institute of History created a network of associates, generally teachers of history and literature, who would help in the "registration" of that culture, through meeting the people of questionnaires prepared by researchers Sector. Although publications for bargains in particular ethnographic and cities in general or were missing, or were too few, it does not mean that there was no attempt to "registered life" civic sector in the ethnographic archives. Thus, although the focus of Albanian ethnography came village, gathered data archive for qytetin.3 The data gathered for the city, the attention was focused more on the period end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the century Twentieth, which more or less meant the period from the 1870s until 1920, sometimes until the beginning of World War II.

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