Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba / / Valerio Simoni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Simoni, Valerio,
• MitwirkendeR: Graburn, Nelson,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Anthropology ; 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782389491; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782389491?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Valerio Simoni.

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.