Etnolog u muzeju
Ethnologist in the Museum

Summary/Abstract: An ethnologist working today in a museum studies the older stratum of village traditional culture. Most frequently she or he is stranger in the culture she or he investigates, but this can also be said of the actors of the culture whose past the ethnologist studies because, largely, they have also become part of the mass culture. In the Ethnographic department of the Museum in Zadar, which should do research in the whole of north Dalmatia, there is only one ethnologist, while there is no technical staff (documentalist, photographer, restaurateur), so that the ethnologist is tom between those jobs. For this reason, she or he cannot study thoroughly and systematically the ethnological topics of die area.

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