Sjećanje na Marijanu Gušić u povodu 100-godišnjice rođenja
Remembering Marijana Gušić. On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of her Birth

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper writes about Marijana Gušić as her student and her colleague, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her birth. Marijana Gušić was a slavist, historian and geographer by education. In her time, she was an excellent expert in the field of the ethnographic, folkloristic and historical facts of the traditional culture of the South Slavs and the older population of the Balkan peninsula. For her scholarly writing, she used the materials from her own fieldwork research and combined methods. She was the initiator of the ethno-museum in situ and an advocate for the protection of the cultural heritage monuments. She was the head of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb and the branch in Kumrovec, as well as of the Ethnographic Institute at the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts at the time. She aimed her fascinating energy at the study of ethnogenetic and cultural processes and she built her immense talent in the basis of the Croatian ethnological science.

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