Montenegro covers arelatively small area, but it consists of three anthropo-geographical and ethnographical regions: the coast, central (old) Montenegro and the mountainous area (Crnogorska Brda). Every region is divided into smaller areas which carry well-known names of landscape features and local families. The variety of institutions and the dispersion of researchers in different institutions (museums, archives, schools and universities) have been posing difficulties to the development of ethnology in Montenegro in the 20th century and today. this article aims to inform about different publications on ethnic history of Montenegro.