THE IMPORTANCE OF ETHNOLOGICAL STATIONARY AND REPEATED INVESTIGATIONS OF A SETTLEMENT

Abstract

The significance and importance of ethnological, stationary and repeated, investigations of a settlement, i.e. a problem subject which is put forward and is characteristic of that settlement, is so great that it seems unnecessary to point it out separately. However, some mainly sporadic results of such undertakings by local or foreign investigators of our countries, sometimes also amateurs in this line of work, remind us of the inavoidability of this practice, which is not as common as the other methods of field investigation. The introductory notes deal with the subject of enthological study which, in the last few decades, has underwent considerable changes in Europe. Then, the methodical values of problem monograph of a settlement, worked out by the stationary method, are treated, while the central problem is illuminated on the grounds of other relationships. It is clear that the author insists that they should be reasserted in our investigatory practice. Finally, some results from the same area, which were reached by the stationary or other methods are mentioned.