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Anthropology and sociology
13 January 2016

Book publication: "Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba"

Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba by Valerio Simoni

Berghahn Books (New Directions in Anthropology Volume 38)

“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.”

Here the link to the Introduction to the book, available to download as PDF:

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/SimoniTourism_intro.pdf

For more information on the book, please see the publisher website http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SimoniTourism.

A 50% off discount offer is available via the same link by entering the code SIM484 at checkout (valid until January 31st)

Valerio Simoni is a SNSF Research Fellow at the ANSO department. For more information on the author please check http://graduateinstitute.academia.edu/ValerioSimoni.

Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba by Valerio Simoni

Berghahn Books (New Directions in Anthropology Volume 38)

“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.”

Here the link to the Introduction to the book, available to download as PDF:

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/SimoniTourism_intro.pdf

For more information on the book, please see the publisher website http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SimoniTourism.

A 50% off discount offer is available via the same link by entering the code SIM484 at checkout (valid until January 31st)

Valerio Simoni is a SNSF Research Fellow at the ANSO department. For more information on the author please check http://graduateinstitute.academia.edu/ValerioSimoni.