ABSTRACT
The setting up of ethnology as a modern scholarly discipline in Croatia is inseparable from the names of the long-term professors of ethnology at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy, primarily Milovan Gavazzi and Branimir Bratanic. Similarly to the majority of European intellectuals of their time, they were both convinced that personal predilections and political orientations had no place in a scholarly text. They distanced themselves from politics as an effective strategy for avoiding the pressures from the political regimes that have alternated in this region. Admittedly, it could be said that the ethnology of M. Gavazzi and B. Bratanic was always nationally engaged. Bratanic, however, gave his interpretation of individual ethnological and anthropological theoretical approaches in historical order that concluded somewhere with A. Kroeber and his Anthropology Today. Historically, Croatia is a land of regions. Regional cultural patterns form the foundations of Gavazzi's ethnology.
