Keeping up with myself: ethnography of a young adult woman in post-transitional Croatia

Lana Peternel, PhD and Ana Maskalan, PhD are the authors of the original scientific paper titled ‘Keeping up with myself’: ethnography of a young adult woman in post-transitional Croatia. The paper is published in the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 31 (1), indexed in Scopus in Q1 (Cultural Studies) and Q2 (Anthropology) for 2020.

This article employs an anthropology ‘at-home’ approach to discuss dimensions of social and cultural changes amongst women in post-transitional societies. By applying person-centred ethnography, the authors aim to provide rich insights into the socio-cultural context and individual development of a young woman in Croatia. They 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 article thus describes how this woman (Jadranka) experiences life challenges and shapes social values in her everyday cultural settings.

The paper is available at the link: https://tinyurl.com/weybewnm.