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...
Nova etnografija
“Nova etnografija” is perceived as a book series for the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, whose primary purpose is the production of quality Masters and Doctoral works on different themes in the disciplines of ethnology, anthropology, ethnography and folklore studies. For the moment, a small number of publications have been produced on wide variety of themes related to the ones that the staff at the Institute are engaged in, which as well follow the most up to date trends in world academic research. The intention of the team is also to translate and publish particularly valuable academic works from abroad, which up until now have not been available in Croatian for either a professional readership or for general interest.
Editors: Ozren Biti, Tanja Halužan i Jelena Ivanišević
Croatian migratory themes from an anthropological angle: emigration, remigration and immigration
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...
Heritagization of traditional and popular music in Croatia in historical perspective
“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...
Ethnochoreological themes: origins, conceptions and dance complexity
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,...
Island ethnographies – contributions of ethnology and cultural anthropology to island and Adriatic studies
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...
Ethnography of refugees: the Croatian context
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...
Transformation of labour in post-transitional Croatia (TRANSWORK)
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...
Narrations of fear: from old inscriptions to new orality (FEAR)
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...
Peticija protiv zatvaranja rodnih studija u Mađarskoj
Mađarska vlada najavila je zabranu rada programima rodnih studija na Centralno europskom sveučilištu i ELTE sveučilištu u Budimpešti.
Povorka ponosa i queer aktivizam u javnom prostoru
U našoj, zapadnoj, kulturi javni prostori su naturalizirano heteroseksualni, a moć heteroseksualnosti vidi se u njenoj sposobnosti da stalno iz početka definira ljude i prostor na određeni način, postulira Gill Valentine.