Monographs on the Early 20th Century Culture of the Dalmatian Folk

Analiza i valorizacija motiva i metoda proučavanja tradicijske kulture stanovništva Dalmacije s početka 20. stoljeća temelji se na monografijama "Poljica" i "Imocka krajina".The “Poljica” and “Imocka krajina” monographs provided a basis for the analysis and evaluation of motives and methods in studying Dalmatian folk culture of the early 20th century

Transformational processes of traditional culture

U radu se analiziraju suvremene promjene u običajnom ponašanju kao procesi u kulturi sela. Na primjerima, posebno iz Dalmacije i Dalmatinske zagore, a dijelom iz drugih područja, promatraju se promjene u sklopovima ponašanja stanovnika na selu i kod novih useljenika u građanske sredine, kao izražaji interakcija tih dvaju kulturnih prostora. Ujedno se analizira psihološka osnova tih procesa kao i oznake težnji za nacionalnom kohezijom koja ima refleksije u nas i u svijetu.The paper deals with particular examples of transformations of customary behavior, observed in the last four decades of the 20th century. Attention has been focused on modifications of habitual modes of behavior in villages and towns, among emigrants from rural places of Dalmatian inland and northern parts of Croatia mostly. An attempt was made at illustrating the causes of behavioral changes, as well as psychological and sociological background of influences on individuals that found themselves in a foreign environment. There can be noticed a desire for maintaining close relationships with the population of the same or related national, religious and linguistic characteristics. There appear also strivings toward the homogenization of groups of the same or similar culture. Analogous tendencies in the European mosaic, together with associating on a national basis in larger towns of other continents have been pointed out. Comparison of the creation of single-nation countries in southeastern Europe with such strivings of nations in Africa and Asia, suggests people’s aspirations for psychological stability. This includes the feeling of safety in a familiar environment, Vol. 13. Split. 156 2004. Ethnologica Dalmatica as well as the affirmation of one’s own sense of cultural identity. These features are observable on rural communities’ level, just like in national associations in foreign towns or countries and in political tendencies toward national countries

Changes in the Rural Family and in Wedding Customs

Na temelju opsežnijeg ispitivanja tradicijske socijalne kulture autorica analizira pojedine elemente na ipodručju pakračke regije. Uvodno je dan pregled kulturnih i ekonomskih zbivanja u prošlosti pakračkih sela, adaptacijskih procesa imigranata i starosjedilaca, mijenjanja proizvodnih odnosa kao baze promjena u prošlosti i danas. Profili transformacije, strukture i diobe seoske porodice, prema dostupnim dokumentima od 18. stoljeća, analizirani su ovisno o društveno-ekonoms\u27kim prilikama i zakonskim regulacijama, od klasične zadruge, porodične zajednice do nuklearnih oblika. Suvremeni oblici seoske porodice utvrđeni su detaljnim ispitivanjem i dokumentima lokalnih arhiva, definirani od posljednjeg raspada zadruga 1958. do oblika koji se pod utjecajem dnevnih migranata po načinu života i strukturi približavaju urbanom profilu. Promjene običajnog ponašanja pri sklapanju braka analizirane su po društveno-porodičnim vezama, promjeni običajnih elemenata, društvenom statusu mladih, skali svadbenih običaja (od prošnje do svadbe bez svatova) te socijalnih i magijskih običajnih elemenata. Utvrđeno je održavanje tradicijskih elemenata u socijalnoj kulturi čiji razvoj u pakračkom kraju kasni za okolnim regijama.On the basis of extensive research into the \u27traditional social culture, the author analyzes certain elements in the Pakrac region. In the introduction she gives a isurvey of the cultural and economic past of the villages around Pakrac, of adaption processes between immigrants and natives, of changes in production relations as a foundation both for changes in the past, and for those that are taking place today. Profiles of the transformation, structure and division of the rural family, according to available documents from the 18th century onwards, are analyzed depending on social and economic conditions and legal regulations, starting with the classical zadrouga, through the family community to nuclear forms of family life. Modem forms of the rural family are established through a detailed study and from documents in local archives. They are defined Since the final disintegration of the zadrougas in 1958, to present-day forms that are under the influence of daily migrants, and are similar in way of life and structure to urban families. Changes in wedding customs are analyzed from the following aspects: social and family relations, changes in customs in general, the social status of young people, the scale of wedding customs (from going to ask for the girl in marriage, to a wedding without any ceremony at all), social and magical customs. The author concludes that traditional elements have been retained in the social culture, whose development in the Pakrac region lags behind that of surrounding regions

Select Works of Frano Ivanišević

U ovom okviru dan je izbor radova don Frane Ivaniševića o temama iz narodnog života, privrede, folklora: njegove napise o značajnim ljudima njegova doba, o iseljavanju, kao i članci prosvjetiteljskog karaktera.The paper presents a list of Ivanišević\u27s select works on folk life, economy, folklore: his writings on distinctive people of his time and the process of emigration, as well as his articles of the enlightening sort