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Some Theoretical and Methodological Insights into the Jigsaw Puzzle of Ethnocartography

The immediate impulse for this paper came from the author’s empirical involvement with the topics concerning "social culture" while dealing with ethnocartography used in a historically oriented ethnology. This auxiliary heuristic technique is being observed as the jigsaw puzzle of the “old” and the “new” theoretical commitments in Croatian ethnology in the 1970s and 1980s. Although ethnological cartography (not having the methodological power to holistically depict culture, but to particulate/atomize it) represents only one of the possible ways of gaining knowledge in ethnological research, on the basis of two main thematic wholes – the concept of history and the object of research – the author’s aim is to defend those principal characteristics of ethnocartography deemed indispensable, the ones that sustain and defend its relevance and existence.

ethnocartography; ethnological atlases; social culture; theory; methodology; concept of history; object of research

Rad je kao predavanje prezentiran na skupu 16th Conference of the SIEF’s International Ethnocartography Network 2010 “Ethnographic atlases - regions, borders, interferences”, održanom od 12.-14.2009., Szeged, Mađarska ; Reprint dijela časopisa Acta Ethnographica Hungarica. 57 (2012.) 1. objavljen je u knjizi Ethnographic Atlases - Regions, Borders, Interferences objavljenoj u kooperaciji sa SIEF International Ethnocartography Network.