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Tourism and informal encounters in Cuba /

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 ambiguou...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Simoni, Valerio (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Collection:New directions in anthropology ; v. 38.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
ISBN:9781782389491
1782389490