Ethnologica Dalmatica, Vol. 9 , 2000.
Original scientific paper
Classification of Traditional Sheep Breeding in the Region of Hrvatsko Primorje
Aleksej Pavlovsky
; Hrvatska radio televizija
Abstract
In Hrvatsko primorje sheep breeding is one of the main branches of traditional economy, yet it has not been methodically and thoroughly investigated in its territorial entirety. Certain authors have given more or less superficial descriptions of some local forms, but they all concern smaller areas and not the entire region of Primorje. This paper has therefore been conceived as a presentation of the basic elements, which would throw light upon differences and similarities of the aspects of sheep breeding. At the same time, the criterion of territorial entirety should be met. And this is, naturally, the point where problems arise, in the first place those of thematic and methodological nature. The question is which elements are essential to an outline of the sheep breeding in Primorje. Which ones are of secondary importance? There was no other possibility but to collect as many various data as possible about this large geographic area. In the beginning my interest was directed towards material side, jobs, spaces and objects situated on them. However, some other questions arouse later, for instance the question of titles. Besides, most questions crystallized out when I started analyzing the gathered materials, so it became clear that the facts were deficient. Since it was quite impossible for me to revisit certain sites and ask additional questions, I had to make assumptions and find some answers myself.
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108489
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Publication date:
15.4.2000.
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