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...
The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography Today (EPP) With this project, we return to the notions of poetics and politics of ethnography inscribed in the foundations of contemporary anthropology, now focusing on questions of the role of science, knowledge exchange,...
The project is a continuation of long-term scientific research that is the fundamental activity of the Reference Center for Intangible Culture at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore. Utilizing the latest technological advancements and the development of digital...
Bestiary of Croatian Ethnoculture. Interdisciplinary Foundations (BESTIA) Through systematic processing and valorization of existing animalistic data found in seminal works of Croatian ethnography and folklore from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as the "Zbornik za...
Precarious Culture and the Future of Work (BURA) Starting from the definition of culture as a way of life and finding that in the conditions of global capitalism, precarity as a phenomenon largely characterizes and as a concept best defines not only the work and...
The project focuses on exploring clandestine or poorly visible work and life practices that reflect or have the potential to reflect on more visible and explicit social and political levels. We use the concept of infrapolitics as a common denominator for various...
The project is directed towards the normalisation of discomfort in culture, which has emerged as a general state of individuals and collectives after the first cracks and ruptures in the grand humanistic narratives, and has intensified due to new civilizational...
The focus of the research project lies in the processes of multiple redefinitions of urban identities and ways of life in Croatian cities under the influence of various global and national trends and policies (deindustrialization, development of new and creative...
By observing music and dance as intangible culture, the cycles of research continue and expand, relying on two Institute’s projects, “Ethnochoreological Themes: Origins, Concepts, and Complexity of Dance” and “Heritageization of Traditional and Popular Music in...