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Creator:: Lomonosov, Matvey
Format:: text/pdf
Type:: Article
Subject:: Chameria, Chams, Arvanites, ethnic Albania, political myth, flexible identity, border area, and Balkan Studies
Language:: English
Description:: Chameria is the region in the Northern Greece that was inhabited by Albanian ethnic minority after the Second World War. It is often considered as the part of so-called Ethnic Albania side by side with Kosovo, Preševo valley (in Serbia), South Montenegro and Western Macedonia. Nationalistic politicians, journalists and historians create many myths of Chameria. The expedition of graduated students of Perm State and Sankt-Petersburg State Universities was organized in the main centers of historic Chameira in August 2009. The strictly Greek ethnic and national identity of Albanian-Greek bilingual population was fixed. Albanian migrants in Greece consider the region as alien land. These facts contradict the discourse of Chameria not only in political texts, but also in academic albanological ones.
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Creator:: Lomonosov, Matvey
Format:: text/pdf
Type:: Article
Subject:: Albania, identity, Albaniens, etno-cultural group, Albánie, identita, Albánci, etnokulturní skupina, and Balkan Studies
Language:: English
Description:: The scholarship on Albanian anthropology and national(ist) movement maintains that the Albanian-speakers at the end of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th centuries clearly identified, categorized and understood themselves as the members of a particular ethno-cultural group (the Albanians – shqiptarët). Closer assessment reveals that the ethnic identity of externally categorized "Albanians" hardly appeared in the given historical period. Often Albanian-speakers considered their belonging to the religious community or the Ottoman state as far more important than any sort of affiliation with a cultural group. In other circumstances "Albanians" could be much more attached to their clan or region, without paying attention to how the latter were composed in terms of language and even religion. When certain cultural or linguistic identity, appeared, as in the case of “Albanian” elites striving to be "true Albanians" or Albanian-speakers distinguishing their linguistic fellows, it was rather situational and got overburdened by crosscutting social, territorial, tribal, religious and other meanings.
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