Erasmus + KA220-HED Project, September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2026 The DigiArcheoSpace project aims to modernize the higher education by providing educational materials and modern tools for documenting and presenting the cultural heritage in...
Island Ethnographies – Island Heritage and Environmental Futures as Drivers of Island Community Development (BAŠOTOK)
Island Ethnographies – Island Heritage and Environmental Futures as Drivers of Island Community Development (BAŠOTOK) The BAŠOTOK project is dedicated to ethnographic research into Croatian islands’ inhabitants’ experiences of islandness. The project’s aims are to...
The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography Today (EPP)
The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography Today (EPP) With this project, we return to the notions of poetics and politics of ethnography inscribed in the foundations of contemporary anthropology, now focusing on questions of the role of science, knowledge exchange,...
Traditional Culture in the Digital Environment: Development of the Reference Center for Intangible Culture (TKuDOR)
The project is a continuation of long-term scientific research that is the fundamental activity of the Reference Center for Intangible Culture at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore. Utilizing the latest technological advancements and the development of digital...
Bestiary of Croatian Ethnoculture. Interdisciplinary Foundations (BESTIA)
Bestiary of Croatian Ethnoculture. Interdisciplinary Foundations (BESTIA) Through systematic processing and valorization of existing animalistic data found in seminal works of Croatian ethnography and folklore from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as the "Zbornik za...
Precarious Culture and the Future of Work (BURA)
Precarious Culture and the Future of Work (BURA) Starting from the definition of culture as a way of life and finding that in the conditions of global capitalism, precarity as a phenomenon largely characterizes and as a concept best defines not only the work and...
Infrapolitical Practices and Changes: From the 1990s to Lived Futures (INFRA)
The project focuses on exploring clandestine or poorly visible work and life practices that reflect or have the potential to reflect on more visible and explicit social and political levels. We use the concept of infrapolitics as a common denominator for various...
Normality and Discomfort: Folkloristic and Interdisciplinary Approaches (NORMANEL)
The project is directed towards the normalisation of discomfort in culture, which has emerged as a general state of individuals and collectives after the first cracks and ruptures in the grand humanistic narratives, and has intensified due to new civilizational...
What kind of cities do we want? Contemporary transformations of urban visions, practices and ethics (URBAN)
The focus of the research project lies in the processes of multiple redefinitions of urban identities and ways of life in Croatian cities under the influence of various global and national trends and policies (deindustrialization, development of new and creative...
Music and Dance Traditions (TRAPLEGLA)
By observing music and dance as intangible culture, the cycles of research continue and expand, relying on two Institute’s projects, “Ethnochoreological Themes: Origins, Concepts, and Complexity of Dance” and “Heritageization of Traditional and Popular Music in...
Digital Aestheticization of Fragile Environments
Across diverse European environments, one can readily observe that the ways in which people engage with their surroundings have changed dramatically. In the mountains and in the forests, along riverbanks and seacoasts, it is hard to find anyone who is not tapping on...
Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled Times (FUTURES)
Bilateral Croatian-Slovenian research project 2020 - 2023 This urban ethnological/cultural anthropological project is dedicated to in-depth research of future-making in selected Croatian and Slovenian cities. Future-making refers to comprehensive...
Cultural Animal Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Traditional Practices (ANIMAL)
The project Cultural Animal Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Traditional Practices (ANIMAL) starts from the beginnings of cultural animal studies and current animalistic outreaches in Croatia, accomplishments of cultural-animalistic...
The record industry in Croatia from 1927 to the end of the 1950s
Project supported by Croatian Science Foundation, 2020-2024 This project is the first instance of a systematic scholarly approach to the topic of record industry in Croatia. It focuses on the period from 1927 until the end of the 1950s,...
The European Irregularized Migration Regime in the Periphery of the EU: from Ethnography to Keywords (ERIM)
Project supported by Croatian Science Foundation, 2020-2024 The European migration regime and irregularized migration movements, including those along the Balkan route that crosses Croatia, among other countries, are key contemporary phenomena that...