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...
Urban processes and identities
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...
Transformativeness and perspectives of work in posttransitional Croatia: concepts, symbolism and effects
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...
From the old writings to the new orality
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...
Intangible culture and digital humanistics
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...
Cultural animal studies: an animal and a human – interdisciplinary analyses and multifaceted cultural practices
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...
Culture of nutrition and the ethnology of everyday life
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...
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...