The Trojans in Epirus: Archaeology, Myth and Identity in Inter-War Albania

Gilkes, Oliver

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“…As such, the exclusionist socio-class understanding of the ''people'' in Albania paralleled other types of political folklorism and culturalist projects where specific ethno-religious and ethno-racial categories of the ''people'' were used in support of both chauvinistically and ideologically charged nationalisms and fascisms. The history of archaeological excavations in interwar Albania, for instance, is shown to put emphasis on the ''Romanita´'' connected to the historical myths of Italian fascism (Gilkes, 2004). On the Butrint site where Greek myths locate both Aeneas and Andromache, archaeological findings were aimed at proving the Roman presence, which should legitimate the right of fascist Italy in restoring its authority on the eastern shore of the Adriatic, and finally prepare the annexation of Albania in 1939 (Cabanes, 2004).…”

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From the German-speaking point of view: Unholy Empire, Balkanism, and the culture circle particularism of Albanian studies

Doja

2014

Critique of Anthropology

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International audienceIn this paper, I aim to contribute to the debate about hegemonic relations between the West European ''core'' and southeast European ''margins,'' by showing the links between mutually challenged and engendered quasi-anthropological traditions in the totalitarian projects of nation-building and empire-building. New aspects of a continuous resonance will be addressed between a politically instrumentalized Albanian tradition of ''folk'' or people's culture studies (kultura popullore) and a German-speaking tradition of Volks-and Völkerkunde grounded in Herderean Romanticism and the imperial ambitions of the nineteenth century. In the course of discussion the successive German traditions of National-Socialist Volkskunde and Communist East German Ethnographie, until the revised tradition of Europäische Ethnologie in the 1990s, are shown to operate from a historicist tradition rather than from a critical tradition as a reflexive successor to former Volkskunde. In the course of this discussion, I will pay particular attention to contextualizing the historical and current production of knowledge by the German and Austrian ''West'' on a Balkan and Albanian culture, which is reduced to its archaic or pre-modern ''traditions'' and its specific or antiquated ''mentalities.'

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From the German-speaking point of view: Unholy Empire, Balkanism, and the culture circle particularism of Albanian studies

Doja

2014

Critique of Anthropology

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“…ɍ ɞɚɧɚɲʃɨʁ Ⱥɥɛɚɧɢʁɢ, ɭ ɫɥɢɱɧɢɦ ɭɫɥɨɜɢɦɚ ɢɡɨɥɨɜɚɧɨɫɬɢ ɢ ɪɨɦɚɧɬɢɱɚɪɫɤɢ ɨɪɢʁɟɧɬɢɫɚɧɟ ɞɢɫɰɢɩɥɢɧɟ, ɪɚɡɜɢʁɚɥɚ ɫɟ ɜɚɪɢʁɚɧɚɬɚ ɤɭɥɬɭɪɧɨɢɫɬɨɪɢʁɫɤɟ ɚɪɯɟɨɥɨɝɢʁɟ, ɭɬɟɦɟʂɟɧɚ, ɬɚɤɨɻɟ, ɧɚ ɧɚɰɢɨɧɚɥɢɫɬɢɱɤɨʁ ɩɪɚɤɫɢ. ɂɞɟʁɚ ɨ ɞɢɪɟɤɬɧɨʁ ɜɟɡɢ ɂɥɢɪɚ ɢ Ⱥɥɛɚɧɚɰɚ, ɯɢɩɨɬɟɡɚ ɤɨʁɚ ɜɭɱɟ ɤɨɪɟɧɟ ɢɡ ɚɭɫɬɪɨɭɝɚɪɫɤɢɯ ɢɫɬɪɚɠɢɜɚʃɚ ɭ XIX ɜɟɤɭ (Wilkes 1992, 5), ɩɨɫɥɟ ɫɬɜɚɪɚʃɚ ɚɥɛɚɧɫɤɟ ɞɪɠɚɜɟ, ɚ ɧɚɪɨɱɢɬɨ ɬɨɤɨɦ ɤɨɦɭɧɢɫɬɢɱɤɟ ɜɥɚɫɬɢ ȿ. ɏɨʇɟ, ɩɨɫɬɚɥɚ ʁɟ ɞɟɨ ɧɚɰɢɨɧɚɥɧɨɝ ɛɢʄɚ ɚɥɛɚɧɫɤɨɝ ɞɪɭɲɬɜɚ (Galaty et al 2004b;Gilkes 2004). ɍ ɬɨɦ ɫɦɢɫɥɭ, ɪɚɧɨɚɧɬɢɱɤɚ ɧɚɫɟʂɚ ɧɚɡɢɜɚʁɭ ɫɟ "ɭɪɛɚɧɨɦ ɢɥɢɪɫɤɨɦ ɮɚɡɨɦ" ɢ ɩɪɟɞɫɬɚɜʂɚʁɭ ɜɚɠɧɭ ɤɚɪɢɤɭ ɭ ɢɫɬɪɚɠɢɜɚʃɭ "ɟɬɧɨɝɟɧɟɡɟ" Ⱥɥɛɚɧɚɰɚ (Ceka 2005).…”

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“Early Classical Settlements” and the Iron Age of the Central Balkans: Issues of Ethnic Identity

Vranić

2011

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Етнички идентитет у археолошким школама на Балкану традиционално је третиран као стабилна и монолитна категорија препознатљива у материјалној култури. Питање „етногенезе“ палеобалканских „народа“ представља доминантну тему и основни предмет истраживања у културноисторијској археологији за коју се данас сматра да је формулисана као последица модерног европског национализма. Овај рад из конструктивистичког угла преиспитује интерпретације етницитета у гвозденом добу на примеру тзв. раноантичких насеља − веома сличних утврђења лоцираних на пространој територији континенталног дела Балкана, данас у оквиру различитих модерних држава. Насеља се оквирно датују од В до ИИИ века пре пре н. е. и традиционално тумаче као финална фаза етногенезе палеобалканских заједница за које се претпоставља да у том периоду живе у „племенским државама“, чије становништво је окарактерисано као „народ“ или чак „нација“. Јасно препознавање етничких карактеристика, анахронизми и директно пресликавање модерних социо-политичких структура на заједнице из прошлости, које могу бити утемељене на потпуно другачијим основама групног идентитета или политичке организације, представља основну карактеристику традиционалне литературе. Питање политичких аспеката оваквих интерпретација у различитим балканским земљама које фаворизују поједине палеобалканске заједнице и покушај контекстуализовања оваквих националистичких тумачења у садашњости представља основну тему овог рада.

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“…that issued by the Consociazione Turistica Italiana just one year after Italy's incorporation of Albania as a province in 1939 (Anonymous, 1940). The relationship between archaeologists working in Albania and Mussolini's fascist Italy was close (Gilkes, 2004). It thus comes as no surprise that the guide of 1940 was begun on the initiative of Pirro Marconi, director of the Italian archaeological mission in Albania.…”

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Oliver Gilkes. Albania: An Archaeological Guide (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013, viii + 332pp., 7 maps, 130 figs., hbk, ISBN 978-1-78076-069-8)

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2014

Eur. j. archaeol.

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The Trojans in Epirus: Archaeology, Myth and Identity in Inter-War Albania

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

From the German-speaking point of view: Unholy Empire, Balkanism, and the culture circle particularism of Albanian studies

From the German-speaking point of view: Unholy Empire, Balkanism, and the culture circle particularism of Albanian studies

“Early Classical Settlements” and the Iron Age of the Central Balkans: Issues of Ethnic Identity

Oliver Gilkes. Albania: An Archaeological Guide (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013, viii + 332pp., 7 maps, 130 figs., hbk, ISBN 978-1-78076-069-8)

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