ABSTRACT
Eugene Hammel moved from his Serbian fields to Croatia where he found some very interesting historical demographic materials. Social and cultural anthropologists did research and published material originating from Croatian towns and villages. Since Fortis' days Croatia along with other South Slavic countries has often been the destination of ethnological and anthropological fieldwork. Some foreign anthropologists have given great attention to national myths. The texts of the foreign anthropologists approach Yugoslavia as a nation-state. It seems that although they worked in the field they did not understand that some 'Yugoslavs' have been feeling and thinking about their state as an unfortunate construction. In contemporary Croatia the anthropologist might work on the deconstruction of socialism, its ideology, traditions, values, coercion, former intellectual silences. Power relations exist also between the authoritative anthropological theories and the small-range native ethno-anthropological insights. European anthropology and one of its most influential promoters, Ina-Maria Greverus, has been pleading for a dialogue in the field.
