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...
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...
Obzor 2020, 2016-2019Summary: As the countries of the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania) come closer to the European Union, the gap between formal and informal institutional practices does not...
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...
