Lucijanići - the Last Family "Zadruga" in the Karlovac Area Cover Image

Lucijanići - posljednja obiteljska zadruga u karlovačkoj okolici
Lucijanići - the Last Family "Zadruga" in the Karlovac Area

Author(s): Aleksandra Muraj
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Family and social welfare, Rural and urban sociology, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: Lucijanić family; Karlovac area; family zadruga; 20th century; co-owners;

Summary/Abstract: The Lucijanić family from the village of Vučjak near Karlovac was among the last ones organized on zadruga principle. Their way of life, their possessions, residence and farm buildings were described by Vjekoslav Jurmić in 1935 (but published only in 1960). The author of this article undertook research among the Lucijanićs from 1961 to 1964 and again in 1984, in order to find out about their destiny after 1935: the zadruga division in 1938 and its causes, life after the break up, and the final disappearance of the common hearth in 1969. While studying land ownership records, the author has discovered the surprising fact that the Lucijanić family de jure ceased to be a zadruga as early as 1892. From that time onwards, legal records have considered them co-owners, while they de facto continued to live as a single household for almost half a century longer.

  • Issue Year: 16/1986
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 99-102
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Croatian