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‘Keeping Up with Myself’: Ethnography of a Young Adult Woman in Post-transitional Croatia

This article employs an anthropology ‘at-home’ approach to discuss dimensions of social and cultural changes among women in post-transitional societies. By applying person-centred ethnography, we aim at providing rich insights into the sociocultural context and individual development of a young woman in Croatia. We examine how a young woman reasons about what kind of a person she is and wants to become by comparing the different sets of basic values that she ascribes to her emancipatory efforts, with a focus on how she juxtaposes ‘traditional family roles’ and ‘feminist values’. The study thus describes how this woman (Jadranka) experiences life challenges and shapes social values in her everyday cultural settings.

Person-centred ethnography ; young adult woman ; intensive interviewing ; values ; social and gender roles ; self-representation ; Croatia

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