Original scientific paper
THE SEASONAL MIGRATION IN THE AREA OF KRIVI PUT: TRADITIONS IN RECENT HISTORICAL PROSPECTIVE
MARIJETA RAJKOVIĆ
Abstract
In the article the author represented the seasonal migrations in the area of Krivi Put during the 20th century (the data was collected during field research in the wide area of Krivi Put over three years). In springtime the inhabitants moved from the coastal area to mountain pasturelands on the coastal slope of Velika Kapela. The research was determined towards the total way of life, which was inflected by migrations. The goal of this research was to describe the initial and attractive factors of migrations, life in summer settlements (housing buildings, interactive relationships between immigrants (coastal people) and domicile inhabitants (permanent inhabitants of the places in the high sea level attitude). The author recognised the specific migrations in need of school education, sources of income, the conducting of the religious practice and funerals. The research was also focused on the knowledge about ethno-cultural formation and origin of the Bunjevci. Therefore the author’s attention was also to research causes of this specific way of life and she noticed how temporary summer settlements became permanent and some even having schools. A symbolic border between two communities can be noticed in the article, which is based on auto-identification used by immigrants and domicile inhabitants to define each other. The article also contains an inventory list of those elements, which each of the member of the opposite group emphasised as differencing element from the ‘Others’. Although they live in the same area, they perceive differences between them. At the end of the article the author emphasised the role of ethnological research in the revitalisation of this depopulated area through rural tourism.
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17767
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Publication date:
30.12.2005.
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