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Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba / Valerio Simoni.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Anthropology ; 38Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782389484
  • 9781782389491
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/7917291 23/eng/20240417
LOC classification:
  • G155.C9 S58 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Relating Through Tourism -- Part One ACHIEVING ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter 1 Tourism in Cuba -- Chapter 2 Shaping Expectations -- Chapter 3 Gaining Access -- Chapter 4 Getting in Touch -- Part Two SHAPING RELATIONS -- Chapter 5 Market Exchange and Hospitality -- Chapter 6 Friendliness and Friendship -- Chapter 7 Partying and Seducing -- Chapter 8 Seduction and Commoditized Sex -- Conclusion: Treasuring Fragile Relations -- Endnotes -- References -- Index
Summary: Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores the promises and expectations of tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to the challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Notions of informal encounter and relational idiom illuminate ambiguous experiences of tourism harassment, economic transactions, hospitality, friendship, and festive and sexual relationships. Comparing these various connections, the author shows the potential of touristic encounters to redefine their moral foundations, power dynamics, and implications, offering new insights into how contemporary relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Relating Through Tourism -- Part One ACHIEVING ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter 1 Tourism in Cuba -- Chapter 2 Shaping Expectations -- Chapter 3 Gaining Access -- Chapter 4 Getting in Touch -- Part Two SHAPING RELATIONS -- Chapter 5 Market Exchange and Hospitality -- Chapter 6 Friendliness and Friendship -- Chapter 7 Partying and Seducing -- Chapter 8 Seduction and Commoditized Sex -- Conclusion: Treasuring Fragile Relations -- Endnotes -- References -- Index

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Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores the promises and expectations of tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to the challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Notions of informal encounter and relational idiom illuminate ambiguous experiences of tourism harassment, economic transactions, hospitality, friendship, and festive and sexual relationships. Comparing these various connections, the author shows the potential of touristic encounters to redefine their moral foundations, power dynamics, and implications, offering new insights into how contemporary relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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