Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba, 1st ed. 2016 To Not Die Alone

Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life cycle from birth to death.

1. Introduction: Bodies, Love, and Life in Urban Havana   

2. Kinship as an Idiom for Social Relations  

3. Fertility and Reproduction: Having a Child is Worth the Trouble

4. Becoming a Woman: Quince as a Moment of Female Sexuality

6. Old Age, Funerals, and Death: Reciprocating Care

7. The State as Family

Conclusion: Time, Care, and Kinship

Heidi Härkönen 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.

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