Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba / / 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 ambiguou...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
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Leto izdaje:2016
Jezik:English
Serija:New Directions in Anthropology ; 38
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Kazalo:
  • 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