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High Albania and its customs in 1908
Journal of the Royal Anthropological institute of Great Britain & Ireland • 40 • Published In 1910 • Pages: 453-472
By: Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study presents a general survey of Albanian etnography as it existed in 1908 in the High Albanian region in the Northwest corner of Turkey. Data deal with traditional history, sex status, marriage, house types, households, religion, and kinship.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Tribe and nation
- Traditional history
- Gender status
- Regulation of marriage
- Secondary marriages
- Dwellings
- Inter-community relations
- Household
- Religious denominations
- Clans
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Albanians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- Folklorist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1908
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1908
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Montenegro, northern Albania, and southwestern Serbia
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. Edith Durham
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk82052056
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Albanians