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

Heidi Harkoenen 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.

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

Author: Härkönen, Heidi

ISBN: 9781137580757

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-04-21

Number of Pages: 247

Weight: 0.4764 kg

Harkoenen 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)