Mario Katic

Mario Katić is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, Croatia. His work bridges Death Studies, Memory Studies, and Maritime Anthropology, with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia.

• Key research areas include religioscapes, identity sedimentation, and interfaith pilgrimage practices
• He employs ethnographic fieldwork, archival analysis, and material culture studies to examine sacred sites and cultural memory

His recent publications explore:

• 2024 Geoadria thematic issue on urban sedimentation processes
• 2024 analysis of Final Fantasy VII fan folklore in Games and Culture
• 2023 Religions article on Mediterranean maritime pilgrimage infrastructure
• 2023 Slavonic and East European Review study of viscous ethnic identities in post-Ottoman Bosnia

Methodologically, Katić emphasizes:

• Autoethnographic approaches to pilgrimage research
• Volunteer participant observation in religious sites
• Drone-assisted spatial analysis in Adriatic fieldwork