SUVREMENI ZAPISI TRADICIJSKE BAŠTINE U VINIŠĆU
CONTEMPORARY RECORDINGS OF TRADITIONAL HERITAGE IN VINIŠĆE

Summary/Abstract: Paper analyses field recordings of examples of traditional heritage from Vinišće. Vinišće is a settlement within the vicinity of Trogir which once was a part of Trogir municipality and today is administratively a part of the Marina municipality. Name Vinišće is of Slavic origin and means vineyard which is in accordance with economic conditions in that area. The first written record about the existence of the settlement dates to the year 1272. Analysed recordings were made in 2017 and are the result of testimony by two tellers from Vinišće. They described traditional rituals, customs, processions and beliefs present in their settlement. Some descriptions are more substantial, such as the description of the Christmas Eve day customs, description of a wedding party or the description of superstitions, while others are more rudimentary in nature and confined to short notes, just a few sentences long, such as the portrayal of the customs on the feast day of St. John the Baptist. Also, the tellers differ in the knowledge of the material they are talking about. The younger teller is less acquainted with details of some of the customs of which the other, older teller, knows more details. That is the expected result of the changes that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century due to the modernisation of the society and the migration of populace from the rural areas. Generations that grew up before these changes still remember the times when the traditional heritage was an important element in the life of a community and therefore they can testify about the former wealth of folk customs of which today many have fallen into oblivion.

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