Inside the Revolution - Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba (Paperback, New)

The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over twenty years, Inside the Revolution offers a rare, close view of how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen months of fieldwork, in a municipality she calls by the fictional name Palmera, to present a vivid account of the lives and thoughts of residents, many of whom have lived inside the revolution for more than thirty-five years.In Palmera, support for the socialist program remains strong. Rosendahl attributes continuing loyalty to four conditions: improvements in the standard of living from 1959 to 1990, the uniformity and omnipresence of political communications from the government, a historical emphasis on local participation in the revolution, and the consistency of revolutionary ideals with traditional machista expectations and practices. Through an analysis of ideology and practice in contemporary Cuba, Rosendahl documents how its citizens support the present political system, and how reciprocal economics between households and ideas about gender both reinforce and challenge that system. Rosendahl also explains how those who oppose state socialism resist participation in society through inaction or withdrawal.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	November 1997
Authors:	Mona Rosendahl
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	208
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-8412-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8014-8412-X
Barcode:	9780801484124

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