TY - BOOK ID - 7911496 TI - Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba : To Not Die Alone PY - 2016 SN - 1137580755 1137580763 PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology. KW - Social interaction KW - Kinship KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Social Change KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Life cycle, Human. KW - Havana (Cuba) KW - Social conditions KW - Human life cycle KW - Life stages, Human KW - Lifecycle, Human KW - Family KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Human interaction KW - Interaction, Social KW - Symbolic interaction KW - Social aspects KW - San Cristóbal de la Habana (Cuba) KW - Gavana (Cuba) KW - Habana (Cuba) KW - La Havana (Cuba) KW - La Habana (Cuba) KW - La Havane (Cuba) KW - Havane (Cuba) KW - Social sciences. KW - Sociology. KW - Sex (Psychology). KW - Gender expression. KW - Gender identity. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Social Anthropology. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex role KW - Psychology, Sexual KW - Sex KW - Sexual behavior, Psychology of KW - Sexual psychology KW - Sensuality KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Psychological aspects KW - Human growth KW - Life cycles (Biology) KW - Maturation (Psychology) KW - Developmental psychology KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Ethnology KW - Clans KW - Consanguinity KW - Kin recognition KW - Exchange theory (Sociology) KW - Psychology KW - Social psychology KW - Avana (Cuba) KW - Havanna (Cuba) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7911496 AB - 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. ER -