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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
HRZZ, 2017 – 2021Summary: In the footsteps of the continual observation of postsocialist processes, this project introduces the anthropology of labour as a subdiscipline into Croatian ethnology and cultural anthropology. Within the interdisciplinary...
HRZZ, 2017 – 2021Summary: The goal of the project Narrations of fear: from old inscriptions to new orality is to find out how, by different story-telling strategies and events, retold fears are shaped, stimulated and directed and how they disappear...
We launched the project “Legacy of the 1990s: Discourses and Everyday Life” in 2019 with the idea of researching the 1990s as the decade (we call it a “zero decade”) in which many processes that still determine Croatian society took shape. These...
By continuing the decades long orientation of the Institute’s research projects to urban environments, the platform Urban processes and identities establishes a systematic research of the city from the ethnological and cultural anthropological...
This project is focused on the anthropological concept of work and devotes its theoretical and fieldwork research to themes such as: work culture in conditions of strikes, unemployment, precarity and unpaid salaries; unemployment and the culture of...
The starting point is Jan Assmann's articulation of a controversy which still generates polemics. The increased interest in the European cultural heritage, tradition and, consequently, genres of oral literature, is the outcome of the loss of...
The intention of the project is to continue the fundamental research of traditional culture and culture of contemporary everyday life through the prism of the relationship between the intangible culture and digital humanistics. Contemporary social...
The project deals with interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary investigation of cultural animal studies in literature, folkloristic, ethnology and cultural anthropology, while studying different aspects of the relationship between...
The research into the culture of nutrition in the midst of contemporary social changes attempts to find links and offer synthesis of research that is taking various directions, to promote the anthropology of nutrition as working knowledge and...
With this research platform, the theme of migration is broadened in comparison with research done to present, because it captures not only internal and external migratory movements of Croats (historical and contemporary work (e)migration, remigration...
“Heritage music” and “music as intangible heritage” are the terms that are just entering the scientific discourse, i.e., they are in the process of their initial articulation. The main aspects are the connectedness to UNESCO’s programme of intangible...
The research of dance and dance forms continues with the foundational ethnochoreological studies of the roles of performers and mediators in the explanation of cultural, gender, group and various spatial (such as institutional, non-institutional,...
Work on the project envisages further questioning of the contributions of the ethnographic method and ethnological and cultural anthropological interpretations to the understanding of lives of human communities on islands. We will explore within this...
The project came into existence as our response to a call we heard and as our duty to observe and understand the current refugee movements that brings refugees across Croatia to the countries of Western and Northern Europe. The continual...
