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ID17399
NOMEA Doja
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SOBRENOMEDoja
ASSINATURADOJA A
AFILIAÇÕESCentre Lillois d'Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques
ORCID0000-0001-5378-8362
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TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES220
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
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PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1998
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H8
  • On Agamben, and Acts of Faith, under Oath

    Open Access•A Doja•BOOK•On Agamben, and Acts of Faith,…•2026

  • Structural models in anthropology

    Open Access•A Doja•CHAPTER•Reference Module in Social Sciences•2025

  • How to think about the instrumental politics of mass rape

    A Doja•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 1

    International audience

  • A Sacrament of Intellectual Self-Gratification

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Critical Survey•2023

    Agamben claimed that the experience of language, as it is manifested in the oath, precedes and gives rise to religion, law and politics, and therefore should be seen as a crucial element of the human process. It is my contention to argue here that a particular aspect of Agamben's own language suffers from substantial and conceptual flaws and self-assertive opinions on language and oath. They may put in question his own engagement with the textual…

  • From the Austrian-Hungarian Point of View

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Hungarian Historical Review•2022

    In this paper, I contribute to the debate about hegemonic relations between the West European “core” and southeast European “margins” by showing the links between political institutions and knowledge production in the metropolitan Austrian-Hungarian areas on peripheral southeast European societies, including Albania. In particular, I address new aspects of a continuous resonance in the politically instrumentalized theories of the Illyrian origins…

  • Political Appeal of Religion

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Implicit Religion•2022

    Much of philosophical reflections about the relations between religion and politics fall within the liberal tradition of religious restraint, which generated both the backlash of a new traditionalism and the critical turn in the study of religion. Moving beyond the real or imagined isomorphism of religion and politics, I show how the political functions of religion are closely connected to the anthropological reflections about culture and politic…

  • The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•New Perspectives•2022•Referências: 48

    In this paper, I show how some strands of contemporary Western scholarship in Albanian studies reproduce substantive empirical and methodological flaws and perpetuate imperial attitudes and othering stereotypes. In particular, I level a number of criticisms at what I refer to as the New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen that has colonized Albanian and more generally Southeastern European issues. I argue that disregard and patronizing of…

  • Ecclesiastical Pressures and Language Politics

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Nationalities Papers•2022•Citada por: 1•Referências: 19

    In this article, I examine early religious literature in the Albanian language in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which, in combination with ecclesiastical rivalries and a differential opposition to Ottoman rule, must have promoted an inherent cultural process of differentiation, especially between Greek-speaking and Albanian-speaking Orthodox Christians. In particular, I argue that the contradicting motivations of political contradisti…

  • The Mytho-Logics of Othering and Containment

    A Doja, Enika Abazi•ARTICLE•International Critical Thought•2021•Citada por: 2•Referências: 39

    In this article, we adopt a socio-anthropological approach to understand how hegemonic international representations are constructed in the politics and theory of international relations, specifically how Southeast Europe is perceived in West European imagination. We focus on various forms of travel writing, media reporting, diplomatic record, policy making, truth claims and expert accounts related to different narrative perspectives on the Balka…

  • Computational challenges to test and revitalize Claude Lévi-Strauss transformational methodology

    Open Access•A Doja, Laurent Capocchi et al.•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 43

    The ambition and proposal for data modeling of myths presented in this paper is to link contemporary technical affordances to some canonical projects developed in structural anthropology. To articulate the theoretical promise and innovation of this proposal, we present a discrete-event system specification modeling and simulation approach in order to perform a generative analysis and a dynamic visualization of selected narratives, aimed at valida…

  • Lévi-Strauss's heroic anthropology facing contemporary problems of the modern world

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Reviews in Anthropology•2020•Citada por: 6•Referências: 20

    Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of the structural revolution in anthropology, passed in October 2009. In the decade after his death, we are presented with a significant number of successive publications that celebrate both his work and life and the ever-lasting public engagement of his heroic anthropology with problems of the modern world. This extended review article is focused to deal with these works in relation to contemporary issues, which …

  • In Hoc Signo Vinces

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Politics Religion & Ideology•2019•Citada por: 2•Referências: 4

    In this article, I explore the importance and passion for historical reconstructions by means of media events and public representations. To this aims, among other illustrative examples, I take issue with the celebrations to mark the legacy of Emperor Constantine to Christianity among Southeast European peoples, including Albanians. Similar celebrations are often used and misused to forward or contest various claims to immutable ethnic belonging …

  • Time and narrative

    Open Access•Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Time & Society•2018•Citada por: 3•Referências: 68

    In this article, we explore the ways in which from the beginning to the end of twentieth century different temporalities and historicizations stemming from different narrative perspectives on the Balkan wars have constructed different commonplace, timeworn and enduring representations. In practical terms, we take issue with several patterns of narratives, such as the sensationalism of media industry, the essentialization of collective memory, the…

  • The past in the present

    Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2017•Referências: 61

    In this article, we explore various forms of travel writing, media reporting, diplomatic record, policy-making, truth claims and expert accounts in which different narrative perspectives on the Balkan wars, both old (1912–1913) and new (1991–1999), have been most evident. We argue that the ways in which these perspectives are rooted in different temporalities and historicisations and have resulted in the construction of commonplace and time-worn …

  • International representations of Balkan wars

    Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Cambridge Review of International…•2016•Citada por: 7•Referências: 49

    This article introduces the socio-anthropological concept of international representations to examine the relationship between a civilizational rhetoric, the West European and the international politics of otherization and containment of Southeast Europe, and an essentialist and timeless bias in international relations theory, including both radical and constructivist trends. We first explore the different narrative perspectives on the Balkan war…

  • From the communist point of view

    Open Access•Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Communist and Post-Communist…•2016•Citada por: 4•Referências: 9

    In the standard folkloric and ethnographic tradition of Albanian studies, various efforts to seize an authentic, traditional and popular culture, supposed to have really functioned in a society of official ideology, were devoted primordially to a catalogue of descriptivist and empiricist research, which only served to confirm the ultimate goal of constructing a primarily essentialized national specificity and a particularly antiquated view of nat…

  • From the native point of view

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•History of the Human Sciences•2015•Citada por: 8•Referências: 40

    In the standard native tradition of Albanian studies, descriptive and empirical research has only confirmed their own ultimate goal of constructing national specificity and a particularly antiquated view of national culture. In this article, I show how and why an articulate analysis of the main intellectual traditions and their impact can provide fresh insights into grasping the cultural particularism of Albanian studies. Methodologically, a new …

  • The Beautiful Blue Danube and the Accursed Black Mountain Wreath

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Soziale Welt•2014•Citada por: 7•Referências: 19

    International audience

  • From the German-speaking point of view

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2014•Citada por: 9•Referências: 50

    In 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 cultur…

  • The politics of religious dualism

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Social Compass•2013

    In standard Albanian studies and Western scholarship, including both the work of religious and political activists and that of less ‘interested’ lay people, historical and textual fact-finding efforts have only confirmed and indeed perpetuated the myth that the thinking of Naim Frashëri was formed and dominated by Bektashism and that his ‘Albanianism’ had a Bektashi foundation. The author intends to scrutinize and disprove this analysis, arguing …

  • Further Considerations on the Politics of Religious Discourse

    Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 4

    International audience

  • Honneur, foi et croyance. Approche linguistique anthropologique des valeurs morales et religieuses

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropos•2011•Citada por: 1

    Anthropos , Seite 161 - 172

  • Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009)

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2010•Citada por: 7•Referências: 29

    Claude Lévi‐Strauss is one of the greatest interdisciplinary writers of the twentieth century whose influence extends far beyond his own discipline of social anthropology. His inquiry illuminates the borderlands between ‘primitive’ and non‐primitive, self and other, myth and history, human and animal, art and nature, and the dichotomies that give structure to culture, society, history and agency. This commemorative article of his legacy assesses …

  • Fertility Trends, Marriage Patterns, and Savant Typologies in Albanian Context

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Journal of Family History•2010•Citada por: 3•Referências: 26

    In this article, the author focuses on the speculative literalism and typologism in current scholarship to construct a taken-for-granted view, taking issue especially with many points raised in the literature on the subject that have associated fertility rates in Albania more closely with the existence of patriarchal cultural traits. This leads the author to argue that the specific rationale for the myth of many children, high fertility rates, an…

  • Instrumental Borders of Gender and Religious Conversion in the Balkans

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Religion State & Society•2008•Citada por: 8•Referências: 6

    In this paper I look at religious identifications and affiliations in the Balkans as instrumental political resources for ascertaining hierarchical relations among social groups and individuals, with extensive use of gendered metaphors, referring to different categories of people as either effeminate or truly manly, and actual women often used as a currency of exchange. A Gendered Ethno-Religious Ideology More than anything else, the Balkans is a…

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  • The Politics of Religion in the Reconstruction of Identities

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2000•Citada por: 22•Referências: 13

    In order to appreciate the very historical significance of the successive processes of conversion and reconversion among Albanians and other Southeast European populations, and to subject them to a more effective anthropological analysis, this article argues that they should be understood in terms of the dynamics of objectification and resistance against pressures exerted by authorities holding political and religious power. This approach allows …

  • The Advent of Heroic Anthropology in the History of Ideas

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Journal of the History of Ideas•2005•Citada por: 17•Referências: 24

    The Advent of Heroic Anthropology in the History of Ideas Albert Doja Introduction It is sometimes claimed that Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski more or less single-handedly created modern anthropology. This may have seemed to be the case at midcentury, when Boasian American anthropology had diverged out into many specialized strands and Marcel Mauss's students had not yet made their mark in French anthropology. British kinship studies seemed, in c…

  • The shoulders of our giants

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Social Science Information•2006•Citada por: 15•Referências: 20

    EnglishIn the course of anti-structuralist criticism, the main thrust of Lévi-Strauss's epistemological approach seems to have been lost, to the collective detriment of social sciences and anthropology. By its monumental character, Lévi-Strauss's work evokes that of the founders of anthropology, whereas, by the way in which it puts in relation the cultural and the mental, it anticipates a theoretical anthropology to come, with the ambition of pro…

  • The Kind of Writing

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2006•Citada por: 14•Referências: 16

    In a now much-read critique, Derrida claimed to show the weakness and the supposed contradictions of Lévi-Strauss's interpretation of writing and his characterization of modern industrial society by the pathology of written communication. Lévi-Strauss is tweaked however for everything at odds with what is normally understood as Lévi-Straussian analysis. It is my contention in this article to argue that, by misconstruing Lévi-Strauss's actual theo…

  • The predicament of heroic anthropology

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2006•Citada por: 14•Referências: 9

    Paradoxically at first sight, Derrida's grammatological project joined the same idea of thought-decentring that was already morally and epistemologically central to Lévi-Strauss. But recognizing that Lévi-Strauss's anthropology anticipated thinking on deconstruction and on decentration would contribute to grant it with the benefit of a gesture that Derrida would like to be restricted to his own approach. In this paper I argue that if we are to un…

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss at His Centennial

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Theory Culture & Society•2008•Citada por: 12•Referências: 19

    Lévi-Strauss's centennial is an opportunity to show his inextricable connections with the evolution of 20th-century thought and what these promise for 21st-century anthropology. He has mapped the philosophical parameters for a renewed ethnography which opens innovative approaches to history, agency, culture and society. The anthropological understanding of history, for instance, is enriched by methodical application of his mytho-logical analysis,…

  • From Neolithic Naturalness to Tristes Tropiques

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Theory Culture & Society•2008•Citada por: 10•Referências: 16

    This article aims to substantiate the idea that within the contradictory strands of anti-structural critiques of Levi-Strauss's anthropology as whether inherently anti-humanistic or metaphysically humanistic, his Rousseauian inspiration and the new humanism of structural anthropology as a human science are rarely appreciated, despite the fact that they could lay strong claim to having mapped the philosophical parameters of an increasing preoccupa…

  • From the German-speaking point of view

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2014•Citada por: 9•Referências: 50

    In 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 cultur…

  • From the native point of view

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•History of the Human Sciences•2015•Citada por: 8•Referências: 40

    In the standard native tradition of Albanian studies, descriptive and empirical research has only confirmed their own ultimate goal of constructing national specificity and a particularly antiquated view of national culture. In this article, I show how and why an articulate analysis of the main intellectual traditions and their impact can provide fresh insights into grasping the cultural particularism of Albanian studies. Methodologically, a new …

  • Instrumental Borders of Gender and Religious Conversion in the Balkans

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Religion State & Society•2008•Citada por: 8•Referências: 6

    In this paper I look at religious identifications and affiliations in the Balkans as instrumental political resources for ascertaining hierarchical relations among social groups and individuals, with extensive use of gendered metaphors, referring to different categories of people as either effeminate or truly manly, and actual women often used as a currency of exchange. A Gendered Ethno-Religious Ideology More than anything else, the Balkans is a…

  • Rethinking the Couvade

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•2005•Citada por: 8•Referências: 35

    The need and the necessity to represent the natural process of birth by means of a symbolic action and to organize it ritually as a cultural process of constructing personhood are inherent to all human groups, which have always sought to transmit their collective experience through their cultural system as a whole. The very continuity of the community depends on these events in which social organization and individual existence meet. To mark thes…

  • Démocratie et stabilité dans le Sud-Est européen

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Les Temps Modernes•2001•Citada por: 8•Referências: 6

    FACTEURS HUMAINS

  • Histoire et dialectique des idéologies et significations religieuses

    A Doja•ARTICLE•The European Legacy•2000•Citada por: 8•Referências: 15

    The aim of this article is to consider the possibility of a new analytical methodology that could include multidisciplinary approaches into the study of religious ideologies and practices, taking benefit from historical and ethnographic interpretations, but also from linguistic and philological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, sociological, and anthropological considerations. If one tries to study the role or function played by religion in socie…

  • International representations of Balkan wars

    Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Cambridge Review of International…•2016•Citada por: 7•Referências: 49

    This article introduces the socio-anthropological concept of international representations to examine the relationship between a civilizational rhetoric, the West European and the international politics of otherization and containment of Southeast Europe, and an essentialist and timeless bias in international relations theory, including both radical and constructivist trends. We first explore the different narrative perspectives on the Balkan war…

  • The Beautiful Blue Danube and the Accursed Black Mountain Wreath

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Soziale Welt•2014•Citada por: 7•Referências: 19

    International audience

  • Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009)

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2010•Citada por: 7•Referências: 29

    Claude Lévi‐Strauss is one of the greatest interdisciplinary writers of the twentieth century whose influence extends far beyond his own discipline of social anthropology. His inquiry illuminates the borderlands between ‘primitive’ and non‐primitive, self and other, myth and history, human and animal, art and nature, and the dichotomies that give structure to culture, society, history and agency. This commemorative article of his legacy assesses …

  • Lévi-Strauss's heroic anthropology facing contemporary problems of the modern world

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Reviews in Anthropology•2020•Citada por: 6•Referências: 20

    Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of the structural revolution in anthropology, passed in October 2009. In the decade after his death, we are presented with a significant number of successive publications that celebrate both his work and life and the ever-lasting public engagement of his heroic anthropology with problems of the modern world. This extended review article is focused to deal with these works in relation to contemporary issues, which …

  • From the communist point of view

    Open Access•Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Communist and Post-Communist…•2016•Citada por: 4•Referências: 9

    In the standard folkloric and ethnographic tradition of Albanian studies, various efforts to seize an authentic, traditional and popular culture, supposed to have really functioned in a society of official ideology, were devoted primordially to a catalogue of descriptivist and empiricist research, which only served to confirm the ultimate goal of constructing a primarily essentialized national specificity and a particularly antiquated view of nat…

  • Further Considerations on the Politics of Religious Discourse

    Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 4

    International audience

  • Confraternal religion

    A Doja•ARTICLE•History and Anthropology•2003•Citada por: 4•Referências: 10

    International audience

  • A propos de la diversite locale des traditions culturelles albanaises

    A Doja•ARTICLE•La Ricerca Folklorica•1998•Citada por: 4

    Albert Doja, À propos de la diversité locale des traditions culturelles albanaises, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 38, Famiglie alpine lombardo-venete tra Otto e Novecento. Seconda parte (Oct., 1998), pp. 63-74

  • Time and narrative

    Open Access•Enika Abazi, A Doja•ARTICLE•Time & Society•2018•Citada por: 3•Referências: 68

    In this article, we explore the ways in which from the beginning to the end of twentieth century different temporalities and historicizations stemming from different narrative perspectives on the Balkan wars have constructed different commonplace, timeworn and enduring representations. In practical terms, we take issue with several patterns of narratives, such as the sensationalism of media industry, the essentialization of collective memory, the…

  • Fertility Trends, Marriage Patterns, and Savant Typologies in Albanian Context

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Journal of Family History•2010•Citada por: 3•Referências: 26

    In this article, the author focuses on the speculative literalism and typologism in current scholarship to construct a taken-for-granted view, taking issue especially with many points raised in the literature on the subject that have associated fertility rates in Albania more closely with the existence of patriarchal cultural traits. This leads the author to argue that the specific rationale for the myth of many children, high fertility rates, an…

  • Cultural Politics and Spiritual Making of Anthropologists

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Reviews in Anthropology•2004•Citada por: 3

    Ethnographic studies of religion, stuck somewhere between ethnocentrism and literalism (especially in the case of Islam), have brought little distinctive anthropological analysis to bear successfully on the practical realities and political ideologies of religions. On the other hand, the popular assertion that certain ethnic groups, having had conflicts over centuries, will continue to fight with one another, is but an idea fuelled by numerous me…

  • The Mytho-Logics of Othering and Containment

    A Doja, Enika Abazi•ARTICLE•International Critical Thought•2021•Citada por: 2•Referências: 39

    In this article, we adopt a socio-anthropological approach to understand how hegemonic international representations are constructed in the politics and theory of international relations, specifically how Southeast Europe is perceived in West European imagination. We focus on various forms of travel writing, media reporting, diplomatic record, policy making, truth claims and expert accounts related to different narrative perspectives on the Balka…

  • A propos de la diversite locale des traditions culturelles albanaises

    A Doja•ARTICLE•La Ricerca Folklorica•1998•Citada por: 4

    Albert Doja, À propos de la diversité locale des traditions culturelles albanaises, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 38, Famiglie alpine lombardo-venete tra Otto e Novecento. Seconda parte (Oct., 1998), pp. 63-74

  • Formation nationale et nationalisme dans l’aire de peuplement albanais

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Balkanologie•1999

    Les événements dramatiques qui ont secoué l’Europe durant dix années à la suite du démembrement de la Yougoslavie, surtout le dernier épisode retentissant qui a fait s’affronter les Serbes et les Albanais pour la paternité du Kosovo, ont impliqué aussi l’ensemble de la communauté internationale pour la défense d’un certain modèle de société et de relations entre groupes ethniques. Les opinions publiques en revanche, abasourdies par les bruits méd…

  • Morphologie traditionnelle de la société albanaise

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•1999

    AMorphologie traditionnelle de la société albanaise L'organisation traditionnelle de la société qui, jusqu'aux années 1930, faisait partie des modes de vie du paysage albanais, inspirant bon nombre de récits et de relations de voyage, ne correspond plus à la réalité sociologique de l'Albanie contemporaine.La littérature, le cinéma, une 'folklorisation' au service de multiples causes identitaires se chargent désormais d'entretenir avec ferveur tou…

  • Entre Invention Et Construction Des Traditions

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Nationalities Papers•2000•Citada por: 2•Referências: 2

    Les événements dramatiques qui ont secoué l'Europe durant dix années à la suite du démembrement de la Yougoslavie, surtout le dernier épisode retentissant qui a affronté les Serbes et les Albanais pour le droit sur le Kosovo, ont impliqué aussi l'ensemble de la communauté internationale pour la défense d'un certain modèle de société et de relations entre groupes ethniques. Les opinions publiques en revanche, abasourdies par les bruits médiatiques…

  • Histoire et dialectique des idéologies et significations religieuses

    A Doja•ARTICLE•The European Legacy•2000•Citada por: 8•Referências: 15

    The aim of this article is to consider the possibility of a new analytical methodology that could include multidisciplinary approaches into the study of religious ideologies and practices, taking benefit from historical and ethnographic interpretations, but also from linguistic and philological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, sociological, and anthropological considerations. If one tries to study the role or function played by religion in socie…

  • The Politics of Religion in the Reconstruction of Identities

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2000•Citada por: 22•Referências: 13

    In order to appreciate the very historical significance of the successive processes of conversion and reconversion among Albanians and other Southeast European populations, and to subject them to a more effective anthropological analysis, this article argues that they should be understood in terms of the dynamics of objectification and resistance against pressures exerted by authorities holding political and religious power. This approach allows …

  • Atrocités des conflits ethniques paradoxes venus d’ailleurs ou sensations dans le cénacle savant

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•2001

    La médiatisation de la guerre ethnique en ex-Yougoslavie et surtout les aléas de son dernier épisode déroulé au Kosovo sont devenus depuis longtemps monnaie courante en France comme dans les autres pays occidentaux qui ont participé à étouffer le conflit par les moyens de la force de frappe.Les raisons de cette médiatisation ont été multiples, politiques et politiciennes, suivant l'engagement des uns et des autres, mais aussi, je dirais, par défo…

  • Démocratie et stabilité dans le Sud-Est européen

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Les Temps Modernes•2001•Citada por: 8•Referências: 6

    FACTEURS HUMAINS

  • Politique de la religion dans les recompositions identitaires

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Journal des anthropologues•2001•Referências: 12

    D'abord publié en anglais dans: Critique of Anthropology, 20 (4), 2000, pp. 421-438. DOI:10.1177/0308275X0002000404. Reprint in bilingual English-Albanian book-length format by AIIS Press, Tirana, 2001

  • Confraternal religion

    A Doja•ARTICLE•History and Anthropology•2003•Citada por: 4•Referências: 10

    International audience

  • Cultural Politics and Spiritual Making of Anthropologists

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Reviews in Anthropology•2004•Citada por: 3

    Ethnographic studies of religion, stuck somewhere between ethnocentrism and literalism (especially in the case of Islam), have brought little distinctive anthropological analysis to bear successfully on the practical realities and political ideologies of religions. On the other hand, the popular assertion that certain ethnic groups, having had conflicts over centuries, will continue to fight with one another, is but an idea fuelled by numerous me…

  • The dangerous politics of identity

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Focaal•2004

    Ger Duijzings, Religion and the politics of identity in Kosovo, London: Hurst, 2000, xv + 238 pp., ISBN 0231120990

  • Dreaming of Fecundity in Rural Society

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Rural History•2005•Citada por: 1•Referências: 3

    In Albanian village society, the main characteristic of the social status of women, and their only function that meets social approval, is their aptitude for procreation and motherhood. And the Albanian child is first and foremost a son, who will succeed his father, inherit from him, guarantee the everlastingness of his lineage and honour his ancestors. If the daughter is a future wife and a potential mother, polyvalent images make the boy child …

  • The Advent of Heroic Anthropology in the History of Ideas

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Journal of the History of Ideas•2005•Citada por: 17•Referências: 24

    The Advent of Heroic Anthropology in the History of Ideas Albert Doja Introduction It is sometimes claimed that Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski more or less single-handedly created modern anthropology. This may have seemed to be the case at midcentury, when Boasian American anthropology had diverged out into many specialized strands and Marcel Mauss's students had not yet made their mark in French anthropology. British kinship studies seemed, in c…

  • Mythology and Destiny

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropos•2005

    In Albanian tradition, the essential attributes of the mythological figures of destiny seem to be symbolic interchangeable representations of birth itself. In addition, their mythical combat is but the symbolic \nrepresentation of the cyclic return in the watery and chthonian world of death, leading, like the vegetation, to the cosmic revival of a new birth. \nBoth protective and destructive positions of the attributes of birth, symbolized by the…

  • Rethinking the Couvade

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•2005•Citada por: 8•Referências: 35

    The need and the necessity to represent the natural process of birth by means of a symbolic action and to organize it ritually as a cultural process of constructing personhood are inherent to all human groups, which have always sought to transmit their collective experience through their cultural system as a whole. The very continuity of the community depends on these events in which social organization and individual existence meet. To mark thes…

  • A Political History of Bektashism in Albania

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Totalitarian Movements &…•2006

    Heterodox mystics and heretics of any kind become sometimes dangerous and other times reliable, depending on political situations, as was the case with the Bektashis. The system of beliefs and practices related to Bektashism seems to have corresponded to a kind of liberation theology, whereas the structure of Bektashi groups corresponded more or less to the type of religious organisation conventionally known as ‘charismatic groups’. It becomes un…

  • Spiritual Surrender

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Numen•2006•Citada por: 2

    The system of beliefs and practices related to Bektashism seems to have corresponded to a kind of liberation theology, whereas the structure of Bektashi groups corresponded more or less to the type of religious organization conventionally known as charismatic groups. It becomes understandable therefore that their spiritual tendency could at times connect with and meet social, cultural and national perspectives. In turn, when members of the previo…

  • A Political History of Bektashism from Ottoman Anatolia to Contemporary Turkey

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Journal of Church and State•2006•Citada por: 2

    Heterodox mystics and heretics of any kind become sometimes dangerous and other times reliable, depending on political situations, as was the case with the Bektashis. The system of beliefs and practices related to Bektashism seems have corresponded to a kind of liberation theology, whereas the structure of Bektashi groups corresponded more or less to the type of religious organisation conventionally known as charismatic groups. It becomes underst…

  • The shoulders of our giants

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Social Science Information•2006•Citada por: 15•Referências: 20

    EnglishIn the course of anti-structuralist criticism, the main thrust of Lévi-Strauss's epistemological approach seems to have been lost, to the collective detriment of social sciences and anthropology. By its monumental character, Lévi-Strauss's work evokes that of the founders of anthropology, whereas, by the way in which it puts in relation the cultural and the mental, it anticipates a theoretical anthropology to come, with the ambition of pro…

  • The Kind of Writing

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2006•Citada por: 14•Referências: 16

    In a now much-read critique, Derrida claimed to show the weakness and the supposed contradictions of Lévi-Strauss's interpretation of writing and his characterization of modern industrial society by the pathology of written communication. Lévi-Strauss is tweaked however for everything at odds with what is normally understood as Lévi-Straussian analysis. It is my contention in this article to argue that, by misconstruing Lévi-Strauss's actual theo…

  • The predicament of heroic anthropology

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2006•Citada por: 14•Referências: 9

    Paradoxically at first sight, Derrida's grammatological project joined the same idea of thought-decentring that was already morally and epistemologically central to Lévi-Strauss. But recognizing that Lévi-Strauss's anthropology anticipated thinking on deconstruction and on decentration would contribute to grant it with the benefit of a gesture that Derrida would like to be restricted to his own approach. In this paper I argue that if we are to un…

  • Atrocités des conflits ethniques paradoxes venus d'ailleurs ou sensations dans le cénacle savant

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•2007

    La médiatisation de la guerre ethnique en ex-Yougoslavie et surtout les aléas de son dernier épisode déroulé au Kosovo sont devenus depuis longtemps monnaie courante en France comme dans les autres pays occidentaux qui ont participé à étouffer le conflit par les moyens de la force de frappe. Les raisons de cette médiatisation ont été multiples, politiques et politiciennes, suivant l’engagement des uns et des autres, mais aussi, je dirais, par déf…

  • Morphologie traditionnelle de la société albanaise

    Open Access•A Doja•ARTICLE•Social Anthropology•2007

    Two categories of reference constitute the social organisation of Albanese society. The notion of fisi (‘lineage’) represents the first, which is typifying, segmentary and holistic, while the second, classifying, linear and individualising is represented in the notion of lisi i gjakut (‘tree of blood’). These categories do not oppose each other as both pertain to a common logic of patrilineal filiation. Unlike the segmentary regime, the linear on…

  • Instrumental Borders of Gender and Religious Conversion in the Balkans

    A Doja•ARTICLE•Religion State & Society•2008•Citada por: 8•Referências: 6

    In this paper I look at religious identifications and affiliations in the Balkans as instrumental political resources for ascertaining hierarchical relations among social groups and individuals, with extensive use of gendered metaphors, referring to different categories of people as either effeminate or truly manly, and actual women often used as a currency of exchange. A Gendered Ethno-Religious Ideology More than anything else, the Balkans is a…

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