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OverviewKinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life cycle from birth to death. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Heidi HärkönenPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 4.501kg ISBN: 9781137580757ISBN 10: 1137580755 Pages: 247 Publication Date: 21 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Bodies, Love, and Life in Urban Havana 2. Kinship as an Idiom for Social Relations 3. Fertility and Reproduction: Having a Child is Worth the Trouble 4. Becoming a Woman: Quince as a Moment of Female Sexuality 5. Love, Sexuality, and Adult Gender Relations: Nobody Likes Sleeping Alone 6. Old Age, Funerals, and Death: Reciprocating Care 7. The State as Family Conclusion: Time, Care, and KinshipReviews“Härkönen has provided readers with a comprehensive survey of life-cycle rituals that is sophisticated in showing how rules of reciprocity in Cuban kinship have changed over the life cycle, in history, and vary between genders. … an important contribution to the anthropology of Socialism, exposing readers to another example of the diverse cultural practices that have flourished in post-Socialist societies. … will be of particular interest to gender studies, post-Socialist studies, and Cuban, Latin American and Caribbean area studies researchers.” (Hope Bastian, Social Anthropology - Anthropologie Sociale, August, 2017) In this masterful ethnography, Heidi Harkonen weaves together discussions of the material conditions of post-Soviet era Cuba, critical moments in life such as coming of age, having children, and dying, and personal stories of kinship, love, and caring. In so doing, this book offers new perspectives on the issues of political economy, matrifocality and gender in the Caribbean, while relating these issues to global transformations of postcolonialism and postsocialism. - Kevin Birth, Professor of Anthropology at Queen's College, CUNY, USA and author of Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality Author InformationHeidi Härkönen gained her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology in the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2014. She has been Visiting Research Scholar at the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA, and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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