This work package focuses on interdisciplinary field research of the intangible cultural heritage of rural areas in the Dalmatian hinterland. The research involves the systematic collection and analysis of oral literature, folklore, language, dialects, speech, toponymy, anthroponymy, and traditional knowledge and skills. Its rationale stems from the lack of scholarly attention to smaller and peripheral communities, as well as the limited study of key segments of intangible heritage. Methodological innovation is demonstrated through the application of onomastic methods to toponymic and anthroponymic corpora as a source for analysing historical processes, migration patterns, and identity formation (Helena Dragić, Associate Professor). The research includes fieldwork conducted in collaboration with local communities, alongside the collection, processing, and interdisciplinary interpretation of audiovisual and textual materials from the perspective of the humanities and related disciplines (Nikola Sunara, Assistant Professor). Particular attention is given to under-researched oral literature corpora from the Imotski region (Ivana Dizdar, Senior Assistant) and the Vrgorac region (Tea-Tereza Vidović Schreiber, Assistant Professor), aiming to contribute to the understanding and preservation of cultural memory and spatial identity.
A specific research activity within Work Package 3, led by Gabriela Bašić Hanžek, Assistant Professor, investigates the historical emergence of mathematical, logical, and broader philosophical works in the Croatian lands. The study employs an innovative methodological approach grounded in theoretical research on deductive reasoning, with particular attention to its historical development. The research draws on the dialogical conception of deductive reasoning proposed by Catarina Dutilh Novaes (The Dialogical Roots of Deduction, 2020), assessing the presence of deduction in the works published in Croatian as evidence supporting or challenging her framework. Its focus is on the non-adaptive character of deduction, emphasizing its emergence and preservation through cultural conditions rather than biological inheritance. In this context, the project will reconstruct the first arithmetic work in Croatian from Dalmatia, authored by fra Mate Zoričić (Aritmetika u slavni jezik ilirički sastavljena, 1766), and highlight traces of deductive and abductive reasoning in oral literature, where formal cultural structures are absent but function as informal drivers of deduction.
