Okolica Gračaca kao stjecište kultura
The Surroundings of Gračac as the Intersection of Cultures

Summary/Abstract: In May and September in 1989 the Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments led in the district of Gračac an action for collecting ethnographic documentation. The author has written this text based on this material, bearing in mind that in 1991 this area was particularly struck by the war. The culture of this area was formed under the influence of various cultural layers present in different periods, so that it is necessary to try to date as precisely as possible particular phases in its elaboration. The survey of collected materials, for the most part of the so called material culture has pointed to several possibilities of approach. This area can be studied as 1) an area of dominant Dinaric culture influenced by other cultural zones (especially the Adriatic one); 2) an area of rural culture influenced by. urban culture; 3) an area with cultures pertaining to different social strata; 4) an area composed of mountain and plain culture; and finally 5) an area where the cultures of Croats and Serbs meet Such a complex cultural area should be studied from as many aspects as possible. The 1991 war in Croatia pointed out that ethnologists would have better understood its causes have they not for so long neglected the study of the relationship of the cultures of Croats and Serbs.

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