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Founded in 1979, the Thai popular monthly magazineSinlapa watthanathamaimed to make history, art and culture into areas of contestation against long-established official interpretations, and thus encourage a broad-based readership to reassess their assumptions about Thai-ness. However, the question of magazine sales, the context of the economic boom, and the crisis that erupted in 1997 led the magazine to succumb to consumerism, as well as a conservative ideology.

Reprint in French in Journal des Anthropologues: Revue de l'Association Française des Anthropologues, n° 85-86, 2001, pp. 255-282 (http://jda.revues.org/2911). Reprint in bilingual English-Albanian book-length format by AIIS Press, Tirana, 2001 (http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/halshs-00486061). ; International audience ; "Within the theme of Balkan identities and nationalist constructions Albert Doja offers us in this paper a long-term historical perspective on the roots of Albanian ethnicity and the relationship between religious conversion and national affirmation. In a fascinating exploration of a little known cultural history, Doja suggests that some parallels can be drawn between the conversion to Islam of Albanians under pressure from Slav and Greek influences in the Balkan Orthodox Churches and the conversion of Bosnians similarly situated between Orthodox Serbia and Catholic Croatia, while discussing what is specific to the 'hibernation in history' of the collective identity of one of the last nationalities to appear in Europe." (John Gledhill and Stephen Nugent, Editorial).

Reprint in French in Journal des Anthropologues: Revue de l'Association Française des Anthropologues, n° 85-86, 2001, pp. 255-282 (http://jda.revues.org/2911). Reprint in bilingual English-Albanian book-length format by AIIS Press, Tirana, 2001 (http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/halshs-00486061). ; International audience ; "Within the theme of Balkan identities and nationalist constructions Albert Doja offers us in this paper a long-term historical perspective on the roots of Albanian ethnicity and the relationship between religious conversion and national affirmation. In a fascinating exploration of a little known cultural history, Doja suggests that some parallels can be drawn between the conversion to Islam of Albanians under pressure from Slav and Greek influences in the Balkan Orthodox Churches and the conversion of Bosnians similarly situated between Orthodox Serbia and Catholic Croatia, while discussing what is specific to the 'hibernation in history' of the collective identity of one of the last nationalities to appear in Europe." (John Gledhill and Stephen Nugent, Editorial).