Skupljači etnografske i folklorističke građe iz Dalmacije u rukopisnim kolekcijama ZbNŽO-a i Matice hrvatske pohranjenim u Etnološkom zavodu HAZU u Zagrebu
Collectors of Ethnographic and Folkloristic Materials from Dalmatia in the Manuscript Collection of Zbornik za zarodni život i običaje and Matica hrvatska in the Archives of Ethnological Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagre

Summary/Abstract: This contribution illustrates ethnological and folkloristic materials from Dalmatia in the manuscript collections of Zbornik za narodni život i običaje (ZbNŽO) and Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica, MH), archived in Ethnological Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) in Zagreb. In this paper, the authors discuss 144 collections that deal with the manuscript materials from Dalmatia, from the total of 640 manuscripts that make up the manuscript collection of the HAZU's Ethnological Institute. This paper describes individual manuscript collections and points out the fact that the materials from Dalmatia include all of the general features that charcterize the Collection as a whole, and that its contents belong to the oral tradition of a specific region. Finally, the paper emphasizes that this material is priceless today, because it is indeed regional Croatian traditional material that is, according to the manuscripts' data, about two hundred years old. Ethnologists, anthropologists and folklorists have a solid basis in this authentic material, because it is here to be comparatively used together with their own fieldwork research and notes. Protection and scholarly treatment of this immensely valuable material will enable the creation of works that deal with the traditional culture, the publication of Croatian ethnographic monographs, the comparative research on oral literature, the compilations of anthologies of folk poems and the editing of different critical publications of manuscript collections.

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