Marija Makarovič, née Jagodic, (born 15 August 1930) is a Slovene

ethnologist Ethnology (from the , meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology). Scien ...

. Makarovič was born in

Ljubljana {{Infobox settlement , name = Ljubljana , official_name = , settlement_type = Capital city , image_skyline = {{multiple image , border = infobox , perrow = 1/2/2/1 , total_widt ...

in 1930. After graduating from the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

in 1953 she worked as a

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at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum from 1953 until 1989. From 1993 to 1997 she led the '' Urban Jarnik Slovene Ethnographic Institute'' in Klagenfurt. In 2001 she was one of the co-founders of ''Centre for Biographic Research'' in Ljubljana together with Prof. Dr. Mojca Ramšak. In 1979 she won the

Levstik Award The Levstik Award () is a literary award in Slovenia awarded for achievements in children's literature. It has been bestowed since 1949 by the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House, making it the first literary award established by a Slovene publishin ...

for her book ''Kmečka abeceda'' and ''Kmečko gospodarstvo na Slovenskem'' (The Farmer's Alphabet ''and'' Farm Management in Slovenia). In 2014 she won the Deklica s Piščalko Award, which is awarded by county Kočevje for professionalism in the fields of art, culture, and humanitarian sciences.

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