Etnographic field research on the island of Žirje within the CSF/SRA project ISOLATION

Within the Slovenian-Croatian bilateral project of the Slovenian Research Agency (SRA) and the Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) 'Isolated People and Communities in Slovenia and Croatia – ISOLATION' (IPS 2022-02-3741) ethnographic field research is carried out on the island of Žirje, the furthermost inhabited island of the Šibenik archipelago.

During the winter months, Petar Simonič from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and in early summer Lana Peternel and Ana Perinić Lewis (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies) explored and docummented abandoned spaces and everyday  life of the island's sparse population.