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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and negotiated at different life stages through gendered dialectics of care, important to both individuals' relationships and state politics. In the process, through a variety of practices and meanings ranging from rituals to understandings of sexual desire, gender becomes affirmed as the central social difference characterizing Cuban society. The book argues that Cubans live their lives embedded in social networks of care that are both emotionally and pragmatically central to individual existence. At the same time, the island's contemporary political and economic changes carry gendered consequences to everyday relationships, with the potential to introduce unexpected changes to the life cycle.

Ethnology. --- Social interaction --- Kinship --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Life cycle, Human. --- Havana (Cuba) --- Social conditions --- Human life cycle --- Life stages, Human --- Lifecycle, Human --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Social aspects --- San Cristóbal de la Habana (Cuba) --- Gavana (Cuba) --- Habana (Cuba) --- La Havana (Cuba) --- La Habana (Cuba) --- La Havane (Cuba) --- Havane (Cuba) --- Social sciences. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Anthropology. --- Gender Studies. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Psychological aspects --- Human growth --- Life cycles (Biology) --- Maturation (Psychology) --- Developmental psychology --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Avana (Cuba) --- Havanna (Cuba)