The Ritual of Institution: Fragments of Contiguities Between Slovenian and Croatian Ethnology
The Ritual of Institution: Fragments of Contiguities Between Slovenian and Croatian Ethnology

Summary/Abstract: This article draws attention to the importance of comparative research in two neighbouring research traditions and the production of ethnological knowledge. Examining the intersections between Slovenian and Croatian ethnology reveals two types of parallels: the first involves intercultural comparisons in empirical research, while the second deals with patterns of knowledge production and is more focused on the theoretical and ethodological issues. They are presented through fragments in a short overview of comparatively informed intersections going back several centuries. Since the institutionalization of Slovenian and Croatian ethnology around 1900, contacts between them became more intense, which were most systematic during joint work on the Slovenian-Croatian Ethnological Parallels conference series, which has lasted for several decades (since 1981). These conferences also offer an appropriate perspective on the paradigmatic transformation of both disciplines: at the end of the 1960s and during the 1970s they were marked by the departure from the cultural historical study of folk culture, and from the 1990s onward by expansion and diversification (in terms of subject matter and methodology) of dialogue with anthropological research.

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