Cuba in the shadow of change : daily life in the twilight of the revolution / Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb

Author:: Weinreb, Amelia Rosenberg
Published:: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Physical Description:: 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Series:

Contemporary Cuba

Contents:

Historical overview: tracing discontent -- Private -- Private space -- Private experience -- Means -- Words and means: the special period lexicon -- What goods mean in Cuba -- Dollars, means, and the new Cuban class system -- Free -- Un-migration -- Freedom offstage -- Conclusion: citizens, consumers, and shadow publics in time and space.

Subject(s):

Ethnology—Cuba
Economic anthropology—Cuba
Social classes—Cuba
Social change—Cuba
Consumption (Economics)—Cuba
Cuba—History—Revolution, 1959
Cuba—Economic conditions—21st century
Cuba—Social life and customs

ISBN:

9780813033693 (alk. paper)
0813033691 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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