TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simoni,Valerio
AU  - Graburn,Nelson
TI  - Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba
T2  - New Directions in Anthropology
SN  - 9781782389484
AV  - G155.C9 S58 2016
U1  - 338.4/7917291 23/eng/20240417
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Cuba
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Travel and Tourism
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389491?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782389491
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782389491/original
ER  -