Post by Arxileas on Jan 13, 2008 6:34:44 GMT -5
Accounts by travelers of the 18th and early 19th century note their presence among other groups in the area (Pouqueville 1820:20). So, too, in works by Greek writers of the mid-1 9th century, Arvanitic-speaking groups were described as one among many that made up the Greek nation-state (see, for example, Byzantios 1953 [I8361).
Many of these groups identified with the Greek nationalists and actively participated in the 1820s war of independence not as separate groups, but as Greeks, clearly distinguishing themselves from the non-Orthodox (Muslim) Albanian populations. Although they could communicate with the Ottoman Turkish-Albanians who were fighting against the Greeks (Skopetea 1988:188-189), they were not identified nor did they identify themselves as Albanians, calling themselves "Arvanites" instead.
cultural polyphony and identity formation:
negotiating tradition in Attica
DlMlTRA GEFOU-MADIANOU-Panteion University p.420
But Arvanitika speakers have it both ways and also appear as true Hellenes, authentic descendents of the ancients, preserved by westerly isolation from the corruption of the "Anatolian Byzantine" (Hart 1 993).
Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation at the Northwest Borders of Greece
Laurie Kain Hart
American Ethnologist, Vol. 26, No. 1. (Feb., 1999), p 211
A Greek encyclopedia published in 1930 provides some interesting details about the identity of the Liapides. They are described as Muslim inhabitants of Liapouria (the southwest section of Albania between the Boiousis and Kalamas Rivers). They are, in all probability, the same people who moved in the 14th and 15th centuries into mainland Greece as well as Hydra, Spetses, and other islands. They are said to be warriors, builders (a traditional occupation of southern Albanians and Arvanites until today), and artisans, as well as brigands and pirates. They do not employ the term Shkiptar (the dominant Albanian language term for Albanians) but retain their ethnic names and the term Arvanites. They wear the fustanella (kilt) by contrast to the Northern Albanians who "dress like Slavs" (Engkiklopedhiko Lexiko 1930:672).
Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation at the Northwest Borders of Greece
Laurie Kain Hart
American Ethnologist, Vol. 26, No. 1. (Feb., 1999),p.214
The population of the Southern Argolid was augmented by an
influx of Albanian-speaking settlers (perhaps taking advantage of depopulations following the Black Death?) in the 14th-15th centuries, and the Arvanites, as they are called, are still a dominant element of the population.
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic ExplanationCurtis N. Runnels; Tjeerd H. van Andel
Hesperia, Vol. 56, No. 3. (Jul. - Sep., 1987), p. 321
Chap. 7, 'Language contact, language shift, and identity: Why Arvanites are not Albanians' (127-40), co-authored with George Tzavaras, analyses the attitudes of Arvanitika speakers toward the way they speak, on the basis of responses to a questionnaire. Responses to questionnaires which focus on language attitudes are, of course, as vulnerable to criticism as other self-report data (Bourhis 1984); but T&T manage to learn as much as one dares from the questions which they have posed.
Reviewed Work(s):On Dialect: Social and Geographical Perspectives by Peter Trudgill
Malcah Yaeger-Dror
Language, Vol. 62, No. 4. (Dec., 1986), p920
Similarly the case of the Arvanites (Albanian-speaking Greeks), as well as the very different situation of recent Albanian immigrants, merits attention as one moves west toward Epiros and the Albanian border.
Reviewed Work(s):
Ourselves and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity Since 1912
by Peter Mackridge; Eleni Yannakakis
Laurie Kain Hart
American Ethnologist, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Aug., 1998), p. 538
Many of these groups identified with the Greek nationalists and actively participated in the 1820s war of independence not as separate groups, but as Greeks, clearly distinguishing themselves from the non-Orthodox (Muslim) Albanian populations. Although they could communicate with the Ottoman Turkish-Albanians who were fighting against the Greeks (Skopetea 1988:188-189), they were not identified nor did they identify themselves as Albanians, calling themselves "Arvanites" instead.
cultural polyphony and identity formation:
negotiating tradition in Attica
DlMlTRA GEFOU-MADIANOU-Panteion University p.420
But Arvanitika speakers have it both ways and also appear as true Hellenes, authentic descendents of the ancients, preserved by westerly isolation from the corruption of the "Anatolian Byzantine" (Hart 1 993).
Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation at the Northwest Borders of Greece
Laurie Kain Hart
American Ethnologist, Vol. 26, No. 1. (Feb., 1999), p 211
A Greek encyclopedia published in 1930 provides some interesting details about the identity of the Liapides. They are described as Muslim inhabitants of Liapouria (the southwest section of Albania between the Boiousis and Kalamas Rivers). They are, in all probability, the same people who moved in the 14th and 15th centuries into mainland Greece as well as Hydra, Spetses, and other islands. They are said to be warriors, builders (a traditional occupation of southern Albanians and Arvanites until today), and artisans, as well as brigands and pirates. They do not employ the term Shkiptar (the dominant Albanian language term for Albanians) but retain their ethnic names and the term Arvanites. They wear the fustanella (kilt) by contrast to the Northern Albanians who "dress like Slavs" (Engkiklopedhiko Lexiko 1930:672).
Culture, Civilization, and Demarcation at the Northwest Borders of Greece
Laurie Kain Hart
American Ethnologist, Vol. 26, No. 1. (Feb., 1999),p.214
The population of the Southern Argolid was augmented by an
influx of Albanian-speaking settlers (perhaps taking advantage of depopulations following the Black Death?) in the 14th-15th centuries, and the Arvanites, as they are called, are still a dominant element of the population.
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic ExplanationCurtis N. Runnels; Tjeerd H. van Andel
Hesperia, Vol. 56, No. 3. (Jul. - Sep., 1987), p. 321
Chap. 7, 'Language contact, language shift, and identity: Why Arvanites are not Albanians' (127-40), co-authored with George Tzavaras, analyses the attitudes of Arvanitika speakers toward the way they speak, on the basis of responses to a questionnaire. Responses to questionnaires which focus on language attitudes are, of course, as vulnerable to criticism as other self-report data (Bourhis 1984); but T&T manage to learn as much as one dares from the questions which they have posed.
Reviewed Work(s):On Dialect: Social and Geographical Perspectives by Peter Trudgill
Malcah Yaeger-Dror
Language, Vol. 62, No. 4. (Dec., 1986), p920
Similarly the case of the Arvanites (Albanian-speaking Greeks), as well as the very different situation of recent Albanian immigrants, merits attention as one moves west toward Epiros and the Albanian border.
Reviewed Work(s):
Ourselves and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural Identity Since 1912
by Peter Mackridge; Eleni Yannakakis
Laurie Kain Hart
American Ethnologist, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Aug., 1998), p. 538