Zrnosko: cultural landscapes and social economy of a village in Mala Prespa
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This article shows results of a pilot ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Zrnosko,
a Macedonian-speaking village sited on the Albanian side of the trilateral border region
of Prespa lakes. It offers insight into the history of the village, connecting histories of
life to the social economic configuration of the local environment. These show the
longue durée role of the forest and the lake, the legacy of the collectivistic organization
under the Hoxha regime, and the contemporary marginalization of the village, signaled
by widespread narratives about abandonment and lack of job. A participatory mapping
activity, carried out in dialogue with locals, tracked the role of toponyms in the villagers’
spatial practices, and in the formation of ethnic and linguistic boundaries. The local
toponymy offers a further understanding of the village as a cultural landscape, reflecting
its historical transformations and the interaction between place and productive
activities. Finally, a syn...chronic-diachronic approach to Zrnorsko’s social economy
suggests a problematic and ongoing process of transition to a new productive model,
which alternates subsistence economy with peripheral market-oriented efforts. These
elements converge in the exploration of the two-way relation between local productive
activities and the spatial organization of the village. Jointly shaped and reproduced, they
reveal cultural forms of socialization of the land, as well as the current perception of its
increasing desertion.
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Mala Prespa / Post-Socialist rural economy / Toponymy in borderlands / Participatory mapping / Cultural landscape / Environment and socio-spatial practicesSource:
The Anthropology of East Europe Review, 2021, 38, 1, 46-62Publisher:
- Indiana University Press
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Etnologija i antropologija / Ethnology and AnthropologyTY - JOUR AU - Carnevale, Davide Nicola AU - Dimitrova, Petya V. AU - Dražeta, Bogdan D. PY - 2021 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5384 AB - This article shows results of a pilot ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Zrnosko, a Macedonian-speaking village sited on the Albanian side of the trilateral border region of Prespa lakes. It offers insight into the history of the village, connecting histories of life to the social economic configuration of the local environment. These show the longue durée role of the forest and the lake, the legacy of the collectivistic organization under the Hoxha regime, and the contemporary marginalization of the village, signaled by widespread narratives about abandonment and lack of job. A participatory mapping activity, carried out in dialogue with locals, tracked the role of toponyms in the villagers’ spatial practices, and in the formation of ethnic and linguistic boundaries. The local toponymy offers a further understanding of the village as a cultural landscape, reflecting its historical transformations and the interaction between place and productive activities. Finally, a synchronic-diachronic approach to Zrnorsko’s social economy suggests a problematic and ongoing process of transition to a new productive model, which alternates subsistence economy with peripheral market-oriented efforts. These elements converge in the exploration of the two-way relation between local productive activities and the spatial organization of the village. Jointly shaped and reproduced, they reveal cultural forms of socialization of the land, as well as the current perception of its increasing desertion. PB - Indiana University Press T2 - The Anthropology of East Europe Review T1 - Zrnosko: cultural landscapes and social economy of a village in Mala Prespa EP - 62 IS - 1 SP - 46 VL - 38 DO - 10.14434/aeer.v37i1.31777 ER -
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Carnevale, D. N., Dimitrova, P. V.,& Dražeta, B. D.. (2021). Zrnosko: cultural landscapes and social economy of a village in Mala Prespa. in The Anthropology of East Europe Review Indiana University Press., 38(1), 46-62. https://doi.org/10.14434/aeer.v37i1.31777
Carnevale DN, Dimitrova PV, Dražeta BD. Zrnosko: cultural landscapes and social economy of a village in Mala Prespa. in The Anthropology of East Europe Review. 2021;38(1):46-62. doi:10.14434/aeer.v37i1.31777 .
Carnevale, Davide Nicola, Dimitrova, Petya V., Dražeta, Bogdan D., "Zrnosko: cultural landscapes and social economy of a village in Mala Prespa" in The Anthropology of East Europe Review, 38, no. 1 (2021):46-62, https://doi.org/10.14434/aeer.v37i1.31777 . .