St. George Day, Muslim Community, Border Area: Exploring Changes on Local Meaning of Sacred and Profane
Nebi Dervish Bardhoshi
Докладчик
директор
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies, Tiranë, Albania
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies, Tiranë, Albania
Греческий институт
2019-03-21
15:30 -
15:55
Ключевые слова, аннотация
St. George Day, sacred, profane,
border area, Muslim community, local meaning.
Тезисы
St.
George day, which is commemorated by Muslim communities in the border area
between Kosova and Albania, continues to be a momentum that brings
together people with different social, economic, cultural backgrounds and
political affiliations in a common place. Within the framework of the
anthropology of religion, many scholars have already underlined and pointed out
the meanings, and the social and cultural contexts shaping the commemoration of
St. George day in many places of the world. This scholarship seems to have
stabilized certain interpretative perspectives on the issue along with the firm
believe that there is still much more to be told. In such a spirit, the
most fertile way to speak about meanings in rituals is probably to observe
their transformation over time. Thus, to this paper cultural changes during the time matters very much. The ethnographic data is collected by the author over a 10 year period
while researching on the border area between Albania and Kosova but also a historical perspective is important to be applied due to grasp more the local meaning and changes over time. The
theoretical concerns around which the ethnographic material is framed, sheds
light on the how’s s and why’s St. George Day continues to be commemorated by
border area's communities the existence of which had been shaped by multiple and
overlapping contexts. The author’s focus will be the way how people
negotiate and shape the local meanings and social functions of a religious
practice of St. George among Muslim people in border areas.
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