A JOINT CROATO-AMERICAN PROJECT
Abstract
The cooperation between the University of California, Berkeley and the Institute of Folklore Research, Zagreb on a project of historical demographic and etnographic study of Croatian village was agreed upon in 1984. The hypothesis which underlies the linkage of demography and ethnology in a joint project is our conviction that the study of demographic parameters will give a more general picture of conditions of everyday life which is the subject matter of ethnology. Ethnological interpretation cannot be substituted by demographic or economic inerpretation. Still, ethnological phenomena are part of a wider living context, which has frequently been neglected by older ethnology focusing on ideal models of traditional culture isolated from their historical context. The joint research is of mutual benefit to both disciplines. The project has various facets and applies different tech ques and kinds of documentation. It will result in studies narrowly demographic and ethnographic in nature but will also endeavour to bring the two aspects together in an interdisciplinary approach.
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