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Një nga të madh të grekëve divinities, ishte, sipas favorizon ekipin vendas (Il. i. 21, 36), i biri i Zeus dhe Leto. Hesiod (Theog. 918) shtete të njëjtën gjë, dhe shton, se ishte motra e Apollonit Artemis. Asnjëri nga të dy poetë sugjeron ndonjë gjë në lidhje me vendin e lindjes e të adhuruar tjetër, po të mos bëjmë Lukigenis (Il. iv. 101), në kuptimin e "lindur në Lycia," të cilat, megjithatë, në bazë të të tjerëve, vetëm do të thotë "e lindur apo në dritë." Disa vende morën qytetet dhe nderin e tij të lindjes, ne shohim si nga traditat e ndryshme lokale e përmendur deri në fund të shkrimtarëve. Kështu e Ephesians Apollonit tha se Artemis dhe kanë lindur në zabel të Ortygia pranë Efes (Tacit. Annal. Iii. 61); banorët e Tegyra në Boeotia dhe e Zoster Atikës pretendoi në të njëjtën nder për veten e tyre. (Steph. Byz. S.v. Tegura.) Në disa nga këto traditat lokale Apollonit është përmendur vetëm, dhe në të tjerët, së bashku me motra e tij Artemis. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Within the context of recent volatile change, this book examines the evolution of Albania and the Albanian people, and assesses its potential role in the common European home of the 21st century. The territorial discrepancy between the Albanian state and the disposition of the Albanian people is highlighted by an assessment of the question of Kosovo and the Albanian diaspora, now brought sharply into focus with the violent break-up of Yugoslavia. The country's and people's past, present and likely future is viewed within the perspective of rapidly changing and uncertain national, Balkan and European circumstances. Can Albania become the Switzerland of Eastern Europe, emerging into the next century as a wealthy, developed state, prospering on tourism and value-added high technology? Or is it doomed to be Europe's pauper state, surviving through the begging bowl and the export of cheap labour? It is concluded that in the interests of Albanian integrity and European stability, a close relationship with the European Community is likely to be the most favourable way forward. ... Read more

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comprehensive, divisive, useful, OK
To much is focused on the divisions between the albanians, without much truth. There are also episodes mentioned which did not indeed happen (there has been no anti-greek violence in Sarande in 1992). It is old informationand althopugh it is helpful, its' quite out of date on many topics. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Ky hulumtim paraqet këtë lashtë grek maqedonase simboli i Rayed Star. Ka shumë të tjera me simbolet e Rayed Star si një lashtë grek i simboleve në të gjitha shekuj. I lashtë grek i yjeve ka paraqitur nga 3-rrezet deri në 24-rrezet. Dhe të gjitha rrezet ka shumë forma në bazë të kuptimit të brendshëm në atë archeoplogical monumenteve. Shumë lashtë archological foundings ekziston sot, të tilla si monedha e lashtë grek, tekste, icons, simbolet, tituli, ostraca, fragmente, epigrammata, papyrorum, tablettes, recensios, sculpures, vases, monumenteve etj i cili ka të Rayed Star simbol i grekëve të lashtë atyre. Edhe Achilles ka rayed yllin e tij në uzinë armësh dhe shumë të lashtë grek dhe zotat Goddesses. ... Read more

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THAJETËTEKONOMISTËT PELLAZGËTALANDAT E PELLAZGËVEPËRPARA 52.OOO VJETËSH;NJËSITË MATËSE PELLAZGEEKONOMISTËT PELLAZGËBANKAT PELLAZGEKONTRATAT PELLAZGEAKTIVITETET SHOQËRORE TE PELLAZGËVE ... Read more

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Title: Researches in the Highlands of Turkey, Including Visits to Mounts Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and Other Remote Tribes; With Notes on the Ballads, Tales, and Classical Superstitions of the Modern GreeksVolume: 1Publisher: London, MurrayPublication date: 1869Subjects: Ida, MountTurkey -- Description and travelPelion, MountAlbaniaNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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For Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most opulent, extravagant, and socially significant events of any year are wedding celebrations. Combining photographs, song texts, and vibrant recordings of the music with her own evocative descriptions, ethnomusicologist Jane C. Sugarman focuses her account of Prespa weddings on notions of gendered identity, demonstrating the capacity of singing to generate and transform relations of power within Prespa society. ... Read more

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great book
being an albanian, id say this book is dead on. albanian weddings are great, but wierd for sure..people would be shocked to know thats a wedding not a huge party.

Singing at weddings connected to honor and patriarchy
If you want my advice, take the first chapter of this book very lightly.Get the background information on the Prespa Albanian community in southern Macedonia and how they have emigrated to North America, Australia and parts of western Europe, but unless you're an extremely serious student of anthropology, skip the array of references to Foucault, Bourdieu, and other "heavies".You don't need them.They're in there to show intellectual dexterity and because when you write a Ph.D thesis you do need stuff like that.I dreaded reaching Chapter 8, entitled "Emergent Subjectivities" thinking it would be more jargon and barely-relevant theories.When I got there, I was happy and relieved to find that it was about "cultural change in a new environment" and well worth reading.That is what I would say about this whole book.It is a really excellent ethnography in the modern style. Sugarman takes weddings and the songs performed at them and reads the whole as a "text" in which Prespa Albanians are saying something to themselves about life, about their `world view'.Their identity is learned, maintained, and even transformed through the medium of song.While many authors claim that they are going to present such a "text" in their studies, many fall short.I felt that Sugarman succeeds. There are a number of useful photographs, the texts and notes of many songs, and a CD.Some tracks of the CD are like amateur wedding videos, but illustrative nonetheless.A few can be listened to with pleasure by anyone with a love of Balkan music.

Prespa Albanian social life conforms to strict patterns, a web of mutual obligations not tossed aside lightly.Your status depends on how you fulfill your social obligations.Until recently, visiting and gregarious behavior dominated social life.Weddings were the crown jewels in this pattern, so Prespa behavior at weddings presented meaningful patterns in their most intense form.The "order" or arrangement of behavior found there---in greeting, seating, food served, dress, modest (female) or exuberant (male) attitudes, rituals undertaken, and most especially, the singing of a vast repertoire of songs in polyphonic mode---establishes social identity."Honorable behavior on the part of all household members is the precondition for membership in the moral community".[p.197]This is hardly unique to the Balkans, but Sugarman examines the central identities of Prespa life---patrilineal household, gender, generations, plus kin and friends---and how the underlying core values of honor and moral order are connected to music.She links the whole system to ideas of honor found throughout the eastern Mediterranean.ENGENDERING SONG is thus a work of ethnomusicology that strongly connects intellectual traditions of mainstream anthropology with the realm of a specific musical culture.By the time Sugarman writes that singing has "served the community as an activity that integrates and embodies their various understandings of `honor' perhaps more succinctly than any other." [p.225] that "to participate in wedding singing is to engage in a process of `engendering'" [p.253] and "singing is for Prespare the discourse par excellence of patriarchy." [p.282] we fully understand what she is talking about.In diaspora, economic status has begun to replace honor as the basis of social relations.The process is laid out very clearly.

ENGENDERING SONG presents an extremely thorough, convincing picture of a particular community.While the detail may be far more than you want to know, I recommend you read it not only for any love of Albanian culture, but as an example of an excellent study in ethnomusicology.

good detail
Interesting book on a small community.This book is well written and moves well.This is not for a person just wanting to breeze through some basic information about Albanians.For a person interested in research about the balkans and looking for greater detail this book is a good buy.

A very detailed working
Being an Albanian from the Prespa Area I was amazed to see the such a detailed book on such a small community had been written.

This book explains every bit of our traditions and customs that our community liveswith, But mainly our Weddings which are a very very complex events.

Iwould like to thank Jane C Sugarman strongly on a great peice of work donewhich included years of research, On behalf of all the prespa community inAustralia ,Thank You Very Much ... Read more

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Fantastic and excellent book!!!
Second Sentence of Fatos Lubonja describes the fate of a prisoner in a country where a prisoner is treated like a wild beast that needs "softening". No rights, no lawyers, banished religion gets topped up with the most paradox of all times maybe unique in the history of the world prisons: Sentence within prison! And not for killing another prisoner or hitting any guard, but for playing chess and " agitation and propaganda to overthrow Hoxha's regime". Lubonja is realistic and definitely not cocky, proud and intelligent, neutral and analytical. He does not pretend to predict the demise of the system only by himself. He wants to change but in his state of conscience he cannot be martyr yet although he respects Kokomani and Lezho later on executed for false and idiotic accusations.He wants to live like any other human in this planet with freedom of expression, but nor him personally nor his two executed friends can do it alone. It takes citizens courage, community cooperation, decent dissidence which in still Stalinist Albania, has almost evaporated. 50 years of dictatorship, one of the most ruthless tyrannic systems' in Europe have destroyed the bravery souls of the old historic country.....

I suggest everyone to read this excellent book and understand that Siberia Gulag it is a "3 star hotel" treatment compared to Albania's..... Lubonja is an excellent writer !!

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In seeking to better understand post-communist identity change, this book presents an analysis based on the study of everyday life in two villages in northern Albania. The author describes the villages from the perspective of community, economic activity and relations with the state. The book applies theories relating identity and civil society to the social, economic and political realities associated with post-communist transformation. By describing village life in northern Albania at the close of the 20th century, it aims to complement the anthropoligical work undertaken by Edith Durham in the early 1900s and by Margaret Hasluck in the 1930s. The book concludes that the negotiation of identity is an exploratory and adaptive process rather than a simple transition to the identities associated with market democracies and that there is a need to adapt, reconfigure and improve a range of institutional forms, particularly those of a civic nature, to generate confidence in the new institutional setting. ... Read more

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Edited by Stanley Lane Poole.This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1878 edition by John Murray, London. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1869 edition by John Murray, London. ... Read more

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This book is a contribution by a diverse group of authors from the academic, business and policy advice communities to our understanding of recent social and economic developments in Albania. The motivation for this book is that there are lessons of wider importance to be learnt from the fascinating story of recent Albanian developments. Michael Kaser opens the book with a recounting of the country's history and political economy before and during transition. He brings to the job nearly six decades of professional experience as a diplomat and academic and an intimate knowledge of Albania. This chapter provides a detailed political history during transition up to late 2004. Dirk Bezemer contributes an analysis of the collapse in early 1997 of the economy and society brought about by Ponzi schemes.He links the lack of productivity growth and the growth of a 'virtual' financial sector to policy practice focusing on macro stability and state abstinence from interfering in sectoral issues - policies which are still common in many transitions and developing economies.Volker Treichel, in a chapter reviewing the post-Ponzi economy, explains how Albania has implemented tight monetary policy, stabilised the exchange rate, implemented prudent fiscal polices, and achieved a significant reduction in domestic borrowing, all contributing to the decline of the overall deficit. Based on his expertise as an IMF analyst, Treichel discusses Albania's macroeconomic prospects. Nevila Konica documents the large Albanian emigration flows during transition, leading to an estimated ten percent of the population working outside Albanian territory. Based on her large primary survey data set, she explores personal attributes that characterise emigrants, as well as the extent of the 'brain drain'.She finds that remittances from emigration have been vitally important to Albania's economy by contributing to household incomes and reducing domestic unemployment. Klarita Gerxhani delves deeper into the nature of the informal economy and presents key insights from her original academic research based on fieldwork in Tirana. In her study of the street vending sector she traces its emergence to clear 'push' and 'pull' factors.Ahmet Mancellari, Dhori Kule, Stefan Qirici and Peter Sanfey consider the emigration issue in the broader context of labour market developments. They analyse the large regional differences in unemployment rate, the large share of long-term unemployment and the persistently higher-than-average unemployment rate and falling participation rate for women. They also conclude that emigration reduced the pressure of unemployment in the labour market and on the government's budget, and contributed to financing imports, consumption and investments through remittances.Gloria La Cava uses her research experience as World Bank Senior Social Scientist specialising in the region to address, jointly with co-author Rafaella Nanetti, the changing socio-economic conditions that Albanians face. They focus on the nature of people's vulnerability resulting from a loss of social support during the transformation years, and on social programs addressing new needs. World Bank analyst Malcolm Childress discusses the 'unfinished business of land and property reform' in Albania.He observes that land privatisation in rural areas has not led to the emergence of a dynamic land market and the sustained supply response which was expected. Urban property privatisation has fostered a construction boom in Tirana and along the coast and the creation of large areas of informal settlement on the outskirts of Tirana and Durres. Childress provides an insightful discussion of possible consequences. In the final chapter on agriculture, Pasquale Pazienza highlight key problems of land fragmentation and under-investment (particularly in the irrigation system), illuminating the current situation with the post-war history of agricultural and land reforms. He explores the determinants of productivity in a production function framework taking a long-term view, and draws out implication for what is still the largest sector in Albania's economy. ... Read more