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Traditional society and its (sub)culture - the island of Šolta an ideal unit: an approach to the traditional island society research
Josip Županov
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper belongs to social history, which hasn't been much dealt with by Croatian sociologists.
Giving the survey of social and cultural identity of inhabitants of Šolta, the author
tries in the first place to give the answer to the question do the people born on Šolta recognize
and consider it in their everyday life as a >>Culture system« (the way of living), and
then he states the main components of the traditional society and the eve1yday life of
Šolta in such a society. The present paper represents a subject-matter and methodological
novelty in author's work and sheds a completely new light on his work: the scientist who
has whole his life been involved in modern society issues presents himself as an excellent
analyst of traditional society. The paper is even more interesting and relevant as the issue
of knowing socio-cultural roots and awaking the interest for them among the young generation
is ve1y clifficult task since the roots of Šolta are competing with the American
pop-culture and it is very hard to get relevant information on what Šolta used to look like
(a hundred years ago).
In his work Županov retroactively applied the same method the Western social anthropologists
used in their researches of the so-called ••primitive tribes« of the Pacific islands. The
difference in their procedures is in the fact they came to the island, lived there the same
way the natives did and participated in their rituals and other activities, they made notes
of their observations and after having returned to their respective universities, they analysed
the elata collected by means of theoretical analytic instruments of their profession.
Unlike them, Županov was born on the island of Šolta, he !earned the local idiom, participated
in various activities on the island and then processed the data collected in sociological
software. The author's remarks on family co-operatives on Croatian islands and on the
mainland, the traditional society survey by means of six concentric circles (in case of Šolta
these circles would be the following: an individual, his/ her biological family, his/ her
broader family - before its decay, the local community, i.e. the village organized as fraternity,
the Commune of Split and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy) identifying the mechanisms
of social integration and the Catholic Church as the basic integration structure, make
this work even more interesting. Detailed analysis of the (sub)culture of Šolta, in the first
place its normative system, which was published in 1990 in the miscellany-monograph
Šolta, makes the second part of this work.
Ključne riječi
family co-operatives, traditional society; normative system; (sub)culture; Šolta
Hrčak ID:
100347
URI
Datum izdavanja:
12.12.2002.
Posjeta: 2.343 *