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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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