Etnologija - ekologija, karika koja nedostaje
Ethnology - Ecology, Missing Link

Summary/Abstract: In this work, the author proceeds from the fact that the public in the Republic of Croatia is occupied mostly with the political and economy crisis. The ecological crisis, equally dangerous, has been pushed into the background. The current ecological crisis is a crisis of the whole civilization, it is therefore natural that ethnology and ethnologists have actively joined in finding ways to resolve it. The question is asked as to how ethnologists can work in the sense of "deep or in-depth ecology" to better the quality of life and to preserve the cultural heritage. Traditions and cultural heritage are accumulated experience which determines the identity of a people. They are also an inexhaustible spring of perceptions which should not just be cast aside, already with an holistic approach to dis-cover these experiences and perceptions whose values cannot be applied today. These cultural values which were in traditional societies passed on from generation to generation, must be learned by the urban citizen in another manner. The author favors the building and setting up of so-called ethno-parks where a visitor could experience a particular epoch in the original milieu. To clarify the link which connects ethnology and ecology, it would be necessary to open studies of cultural ecology or ethno-ecology.

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