Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-833-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simoni, Valerio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Soziologie, Psychologie, Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Nelson Graburn

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Relating through Tourism

PART I: ACHIEVING ENCOUNTERS

Chapter 1. Tourism in Cuba

Chapter 2. Shaping Expectations

Chapter 3. Gaining Access

Chapter 4. Getting in Touch

PART II: SHAPING RELATIONS

Chapter 5. Commodity Exchange and Hospitality

Chapter 6. Friendliness and Friendship

Chapter 7. Partying and Seducing

Chapter 8. Seduction and Commoditized Sex

Conclusion: Treasuring Fragile Relations

References

Endnotes

Über Autor(innen)

Simoni, Valerio
Valerio Simoni is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva. His work, grounded in ethnographic research in Cuba and Spain, focuses on the transformation of intimacy, morality, and economic practice in international tourism and migration.

Valerio Simoni is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva. His work, grounded in ethnographic research in Cuba and Spain, focuses on the transformation of intimacy, morality, and economic practice in international tourism and migration.