Vengeance is mine
Subtitle: justice Albanian style
By: Fatos Tarifa.
Publisher: Globic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780980189605
Subjects: Vendetta -- Albania -- History; Customary law -- Albania; Albania -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of the Kanun; title: The bedrock, scope, and power of the Kanun; title: Hospitality : bread and salt and heart; title: Besa : the national religion of Albanians; title: Secular but sacred; title: Causes, rules, and rituals of vengeance; title: Tribes, families, and genealogies; title: Women and "social men" : transcending gender boundaries; title: Honor and order in a "lawless" society; title: Blood, symbols, and collective memory; title: Rules of vengeance; title: Making sense of blood taking : frames of reference; title: Tarifa's exposition of the Kanun / by Rory J. Conces.