ABSTRACT
The majority of European ethnologists move with assurance within the overall dimensions of cultural and social anthropology, constructing a new identity for a field of scholarship called ethno-anthropology. Modern ethnology discovered the relationship between folklore, as authentic popular heritage, and folklorism as the second existence of folklore. However, that critical point assumes diverse approaches in ethnological research and a corresponding diversity in paradigms. The former 'official' ethnology of the Croatian ethnological corpus left a heavy burden: an inability to accept a scholarly dialogue. There are hardly any discussions on theoretical issues conducted at the Croatian Ethnological Society. In fact, the Society is still not organized as a scholarly society. It vegetates between the tasks of preserving heritage and rendering services to media and State think-tanks. The ethnological school that is usually called historical in Croatia, is, in fact, far distant from contemporary micro-historical approaches, or has only begun to draw nearer to them.
