http://www.anthropos.eu/anthropos/journal/abstracts/1061/12-Albert-Doja.phpInternational audienceThe aim of this paper is to explore the ethnographic-linguistic nexus used to express institutions and concepts of honour, belief and trust, which can prove to be crucial for understanding social values of morals and religion. To designate notions of religion and belief Albanians use terms which draw their origin in the same Indo-European common stock shared with equivalent Latin and Ancient Greek terms and which indicate the moral values of honour such as oath and given word as well as the strategies of matrimonial alliance. This is to say that terms of this lexical field indicate concepts that appear crucial for understanding the functioning o...