An attempt to found a professional association of Yugoslav ethnologists during the interwar period: The project of the Ethnological Society in Belgrade according to correspondence between Milovan Gavazzi and Milenko Filipović Cover Image

Pokušaj pokretanja središnje strukovne udruge jugoslavenskih etnologa u međuratnom razdoblju. Projekt Etnološkog društva u Beogradu prema korespondenciji Milovana Gavazzija i Milenka Filipovića
An attempt to found a professional association of Yugoslav ethnologists during the interwar period: The project of the Ethnological Society in Belgrade according to correspondence between Milovan Gavazzi and Milenko Filipović

Author(s): Ivan Grkeš
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: Milovan Gavazzi; Milenko Filipović; Ethnological Society in Belgrade; history of ethnology; intellectual history;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a short episode from the history of ethnology during the interwar period (1918-1941) related to an attempt to found a professional association of Yugoslav ethnologists, which would have been a forerunner to the Ethnological Society of Yugoslavia, which was to be founded later in 1957. Based on an analysis of Milovan Gavazzi's correspondence with Serbian ethnologist Milenko Filipović, this topic will be approached from the perspective of intellectual history. On this note, work to establish an ethnological society will be viewed as an indicator of the intellectual involvement of both Gavazzi and Filipović during the interwar period.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 183-207
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Croatian