Original scientific paper

Traditonal economy in Baranja

Vlasta Domaćinović ; Etnološki zavod Fulozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Croatia

Abstract

Many older cultural elements have been preserved till today as some marginal parts of economy and the older names for some details are now used for some new industrial products. It is possible to find out many things of a region's older culture by doing a research in preserved cultural (especially economical) elements. In the region of Baranja many people still remember the old ways of agriculture.
Baranja's agriculture had the Panonian cattle-breeding as its supplement Of course, there were also vineyards.
The economy of Baranja differs from village to village. There is no precise classification in terms of similarity of economy, although the villages near Hungary have a higher degree of same elements. The village of Kopačevo is more archaic in terms of agriculture than other villages. We have also marked each cultural term or element which appears in our Questionnaires. If we do not have an element registered, it does not mean that it did not exist. Very often the answers given by the Questionnaire depended on the enquirer and the reliable informant
In all the villages except Zmajevac the main source of economy was agriculture, and in Zmajevac it was viticulture.
Immediately before this war started, our economy has changed, eg. the village of Kopačevo was known as main vegetable supplier of Osijek. Because of its important role, the village became richer and the whole way of life has changed. Similar changes have happened in all the villages of Baranja.

Keywords

Baranja; Ethnological Atlas questionnaires; agriculture; cattle breeding; beekeeping; fishing; hunting

Hrčak ID:

75749

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/75749

Publication date:

8.3.1993.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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