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 employ ethnology and cultural anthropology as means of developing nissology, as well as to provide insights for the development of island policies and support for island communities.
Interdisciplinary research will encompass heritage topics such as the exploration of social relevance, affective experiences and the musicological aspect of island processions and pilgrimages (Hvar, Rab, Zadar archipelago), intergenerational transfer of knowledge on intangible cultural heritage (Hvar) and women’s heritage (Korčula, Hvar, Šolta), contemporary island labor migrations and newcomers to islands (Hvar, Susak, Lastovo), as well as representations of islands in literature and contemporary art (Hvar, Brač) and the environmental futures of islands (Cres, Hvar, Krk).
The primary dissemination activity of the project is the organization of the annual international symposium “Anatomy of an Island” on the island of Hvar, as well as the organization of thematically related workshops, round tables, and exhibitions.
The project brings together ethnologists and cultural anthropologists, ethnomusicologists and ethnochoreologists, as well as graduate students of ethnology and cultural anthropology. It also ensures continuous collaboration with professionals in the field of social sciences, as the BAŠOTOK is related to the ETNOTOK project (Ethnographies of Islandness – Island Migrations, Mobilities and Identifications) of the Institute for Migration Research, headed by Ana Perinić Lewis, PhD.
