Review article

Folklore material from Lovinac and its surroundings in the collections of the institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research

Ljiljana Marks ; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku

Abstract

Maja Bošković-Stulli, Nikola Bonifačić Rožin, Ivan Ivančan and Stjepan Stepanov,
then researchers of the Institute of Folk Art (later the Institute of Ethnology and
Folklore Research), conducted field research in Lovinac and its surroundings in
1955 and partly in 1956. Each of them primarily researched his or her specific topic, but, as it was done at the time, he or she also recorded everything that belonged to broader ethnological and folkloristic topics. Therefore, traditions, beliefs,
fairy tales, prayers, intercessions, lyrical and epic poems are found in unequal proportions in all collections. It was a very early systematic field research, their methodology was still in its infancy, and mostly everything that anyone found was
recorded. Records of local people were often taken without critical distance and
later verification. These researches are extremely important today due to the abundance of material that has been collected despite the lack of data on performances,
listeners, context, distribution, popularity of individual performers, and human
destinies. Oral material is presented from different research focuses of individual
researchers / writers (tales, legends, beliefs, prayers, intercessions, charms, songs).

Keywords

Lovinac; Lika; field research; oral literature; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

256520

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/256520

Publication date:

23.4.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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