Etnografi për Skënderbeun: interpretime antropologjike

Abstract

This work critically examines the ethnographic narratives concerning Scanderbeg. While pondering on the position attributed to this historical figure on the formation and articulation of collective meanings - the "self", the "other", law, and justice. Our analysis will specifically focus in comparing the ethnographic data that are embedded and amplified within the monumental history of Scanderbeg, Albania's national history with the ethnographic narratives deemed as minor or classified as inferior data to tell the hero's history. At the end, this work should be read as an invitation to re-examine a number of purposefully forgotten ethnographic territories as a mean to articulate a broader anthropological understanding on the national hero.