Yugo-Scandinavian Cultural Transfer During the Interwar Period

The goal of this chapter is to serve as a synthesis essay, one which primarily strives: a) to provide a systematic overview of second-hand material and literature on the subject of Yugoslav-Scandinavian interwar cultural exchange and b) to supplement existing findings with fresh insights gained from previously unexamined documents and other relevant first-hand historical sources. The chapter aims to offer a comprehensive, all-encompassing, analytical reassessment of its subject while providing new research data. In doing so, it relies on the cultural transfer theory and the accompanying cultural transfer methodological framework, which utilizes operational and analytical research methods prevalent in historiography, ethnography, and transregional and literary studies, i.e., methods such as archival exploration, document analysis, discourse analysis, comparative analysis, process tracing, etc. As emphasized in the concluding remarks, the research results presented in this chapter demonstrate that the Yugo-Scandinavian cultural transfer in the interwar period was predominantly formal in nature, as it primarily arose from official political and diplomatic relations or from economic collaboration and trade. However, informal person-to- person/face-to-face interaction also contributed to the exchange of artifacts, ideas, and broader cultural phenomena.