Name and Social Structure: Examples from Southeast Europe

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Numerous studies have been made on systems of naming in western Europe but south-eastern Europe has been little documented until now. This volume examines patterns in naming in Albania, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia and collects data from all social categories over various periods of history. More traditional and less influenced by governments, this area of Europe has preserved conventions of name and territorialization, name and tribal society, or name and religion that reconstitute systems that have elsewhere disappeared.

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