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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba : To Not Die Alone

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (259 p)

Englisch

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Print version: Härkönen, Heidi : Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba : To Not Die Alone. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US,c2016

978-1-137-58075-7

978-1-137-58075-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 950931933     

978-1-137-58076-4 ( : 194.64 (NL),145.98 (3U),97.32 (1U))

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H1-970.9

306.85097291 ; 302.097291/23     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Ethnology

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Bodies, Love, and Life in Urban Havana -- Socialist Efforts to Modernize Family, Gender, and Sexuality -- Post-Soviet Havana -- Negotiating Intimacy, Money, and Reciprocity -- Space and Housing -- Body, Beauty, and Race -- To Not Die Alone -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Kinship as an Idiom for Social Relations -- Kinship over the Life Cycle -- Reciprocity and the Dialectics of Care -- Love, Reproductive Cycle, and Personhood -- Fieldwork in Havana -- Bibliography

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Chapter 3: Fertility and Reproduction: Having a Child Is Worth the Trouble -- Deciding over Pregnancy: When to Have a Child? -- Not Planning It -- Love -- Money and Housing: Having the Conditions -- State Involvement in Decisions over Pregnancy -- Infertility -- Waiting for a Newborn: Expectations Regarding a Baby -- Body and Looks -- Baby's Gender -- Kinship as Blood, Nurture, and Biogenetic Ties -- Female Nurturing Care -- Male Material Care: A Child Makes the Father -- State Care: Nurture and Material Contributions -- After Birth: Catholic Baptism -- Godparents -- Naming -- Bibliography