The authors describe in detail half a century of folklore research — philological,
ethnotheatrological and the like — at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in
Zagreb. They have divided into three periods their diachronical review of the Institute\u27s
staff\u27s achievements in scholarship and research in the light of the domestic and
international professional range of their work, these periods coinciding to an extent with
the three names by which the Institute has been known at various times — and in changes
in the graphic design of Narodna umjetnost — the Croatian Journal of Ethnology and
Folklore Research — which also mark the shifts in the approach to the study of folklore
