Historical Review of Ethnological Investigations and Interest in Folk Culture in Croatia Cover Image

Historijski prikaz etnoloških istraživanja i interesa za narodnu kulturu u Hrvatskoj
Historical Review of Ethnological Investigations and Interest in Folk Culture in Croatia

Author(s): Vesna Čulinović-Konstantinović
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Review, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Methodology and research technology, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: folk culture; Croatia; Matica Ilirska; Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts; traditional culture; ethnology; sociology; musicology; ethnogeography;

Summary/Abstract: This work reviews a 165 years long period of real interest in folk culture in Croatia, as well as ethnographic work which is of about same age. The author has also analysed conditions that led into establishment of „Matica Ilirska" and Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb as a center of organization, at first ethnographic and later scientific thought about methods, and the subjects of investigation involved. Finally, a post— World War II development of scientific work and institutions, whose basic aims are investigations of traditional culture, its developmental processes and its today state, especially from the ethnological, ethnosociological, ethnomusicological, folkloristic and ethnogeographical aspects is analysed.

  • Issue Year: 1979
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 67-88
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Croatian