Scientific Documentation about Folk Life on the Greater Zagreb Area - Report about Present Results on the Field Work Cover Image

Znanstvena dokumentacija o narodnom životu na širem području Zagreba (Izvještaj o dosadašnjim istraživanjima)
Scientific Documentation about Folk Life on the Greater Zagreb Area - Report about Present Results on the Field Work

Author(s): Mario Petrić
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: scientific documentation; Zagreb; folk life; customs; cultural anthropology;

Summary/Abstract: In 1965. Zagreb Local Branch of Ethnological Society of Yugoslavia gave a suggestion to begin with systematic evidention of ethnographic material on the greater Zagreb area. This initiative was accepted by Ethnographical Museum in Zagreb and after longer preparations the investigation has begun in 1969. Investigations are made on fundamental themes as follows: transport and transport tools, food, hygiene and folk medicine, wedding customs, annual customs, death customs, customs following farm work, economics, hunting and fishing, inhabitants and their social structure, manual trade and home handicraft, preparation of weaving material, weaving Technics, folk costume and head dressing, settlements, houses and their interior, games and leisure. Till now, all planned areas except the southern part of Zagreb have been investigated. In 1981. it is expected that the work on the project will be finished. The gathered material is vast and it will be put in order and published gradually.

  • Issue Year: 1980
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 7-10
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Croatian