Tourism and informal encounters in Cuba /

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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 ambiguou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Simoni, Valerio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Series:New directions in anthropology ; v. 38.
Subjects:
Tourism > Cuba.
Tourism > Social aspects > Cuba.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Tourism
Tourism > Social aspects
Cuba
Cuba.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: relating through tourism
  • Tourism in Cuba
  • Shaping expectations
  • Gaining access
  • Getting in touch
  • Market exchagne and hospitality
  • Friendliness and friendship
  • Partying and seducing
  • Seduction and commoditized sex
  • Conclusion: treasuring fragile relations.

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