Family Photographs in Communist Albania: State Photography and the Private Sphere
The aim of this paper is to present the first results of an on-going research project on the social uses of photography in communist Albania. If we are interested in official and propaganda photography, we would like to focus here on a less known aspect of photography in Albania, family photography. Social sciences have long been interested in the relationship between family and photography and it is established that photography tells a lot about family forms and kinship relations. Family albums are narratives; they tell the story of the family and produce an image of the family. We would like to question this image in the context of communist Albania, in which both photography and family were subject to political representations and practices.
L'Albanie en perspectives. Anthropologie des frontières et écritures de la différence
Le projet d’HDR que je presente sous le titre L’Albanie en perspectives : anthropologie des frontieres et ecritures de la difference se compose de trois volumes offrant trois points de vue differents sur les recherches que je mene sur l’Albanie et les Albanais depuis une vingtaine d’annees. Le premier volume consiste en un memoire de synthese dans lequel je reviens sur mon parcours, sur les approches adoptees et sur les principaux resultats acquis. Le deuxieme volume est un manuscrit inedit donnant pour la premiere fois une vue d’ensemble d’une etude sur la photographie de l’Albanie communiste. Le troisieme volume est un recueil de textes publies groupes sous trois entrees thematiques.
The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy
In this newly revised edition of his widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyzes the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive approach, the author is concerned not only with the finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and others, but also with the social background, patterns of recruitment, and means of subsistence of this "cultural elite." He thus makes a major contribution both to our understanding of the Italian Renaissance and to our comprehension of the complex relations between culture and society. An excellent social history of the lives and culture of the artists and artisans which made it possible for the arts to flourish.