Je li "narodna nošnja" narodna?
How Folk is "Folk Costume"?

Summary/Abstract: This article questions the general term "folk costume", a neologism introduced in the Croatian language in the 19th century. The romanticist invention of this term was preceded by the establishment of the notion of a true and correct costume that has, since the Renaissance period, been upgraded on earlier allegorical representations. The author analyses the related folk terminology and its meanings in the wider Croatian and narrower North Dalmatian framework. The article outlines the local disciplinary usage of the term, as well as the global terminological situation today. It ends with the proposition for a terminological rehabilitation that legitimizes the refreshed methodological possibilities already widely used in many works.

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