Review article
THE ROLE OF VOJKO MIKLAUŠIĆ IN MODELING THE TUROPOLJE AREA'S TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Vesna Župetić
; Grad Velika Gorica
Abstract
Vojko Miklaušić was an enthusiast who collected and noted down material about the various aspects of the Turopolje folk culture during a seventeen year period, especially the cultural heritage of Donja Lomnica. His book Plemeniti puti was published thirty years after he passed away. The everyday life of the Turopolje peasant at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century was described on page 360. By analyzing the book Plemeniti puti, the paper's author elaborates on its role in preserving and promoting the local cultural identity. Urbanization and globalization processes rapidly dissolve the frames of traditional cultures and create new reality – especially that of Turopolje which is geographically positioned on the fringes of the largest urban area in Croatia – the town of Zagreb, and is thereby subject to the mentioned influences. Changes of life styles cause the disappearance of ties between generations within a community, and the traditional manner of handing over knowledge, crafts and customs is lost in the process of cultural identity redefinition. Therefore, the fundamental value of the book Plemeniti puti is to provide available knowledge on Turopolje's cultural traditions.
The cultural identity of Turopolje is based firstly in the collective consciousness about the area where free people, nobles had always lived. The efforts through many centuries to preserve freedom and tribal tradition had influenced the forming of a closed community not inclined to make way for changes, a community that is up to present times following tradition in a persistant manner.
The idea of this paper is to position the ethnographic heritage of Vojko Miklaušić into the context of contemporary views aiming to protect local cultural identity.
Keywords
Vojko Miklaušić; traditional culture; Turopolje; Plemeniti puti; Donja Lomnica, customs
Hrčak ID:
119140
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Publication date:
18.7.2013.
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