Ethnologica Dalmatica, Vol. 9 , 2000.
Original scientific paper
Ethnographic Researches in Dalmatia Till the Beginning of the 20th Century
Vesna Čulinović-Konstantinović
; Tuškanac 56b, 10000 Zagreb
Abstract
Studies of folk culture show different motives, aims and methods. Analyzing the studies made by the first decades of the 20th century, we try to present researchers' relationships toward the bearers of culture, which is the central theme. The article presents methods and aims of the early descriptions of ethnographic material, from pictorial documentation to the descriptions of way of life, customs and beliefs, as well as objects of material culture of the people, i. e. country folk. Until the 1930s that kind of documentation was supplied by the laymen, who mostly out of the patriotic impulses observed the cultural sphere of the then lower class. Their ways of work have been analyzed, with the emphasis on the control fieldwork of Antun Radić and Dragutin Boranić, editors of the Academy's periodical Zbornik za narodni život i običaje Južnih Slavena (Folk Life and Customs of the South Slavs). Narrators and the cultural background of researches' assistants have been depicted. The latter in their native places helped the researchers find individuals that had expert knowledge in their own culture. Together with new materials from the same or neighboring places, and by observing all the elements from early ethnographic works, old ethnographic records and artistic representations present a valuable basis for scientific work.
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108485
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Publication date:
15.4.2000.
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