TY - JOUR
T1 - When a yuma meets mama
T2 - Commodified kin and the affective economies of queer tourism in Cuba
AU - Stout, Noelle
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - In this article, I explore the kinship imaginaries that emerged between gay male tourists from North America and Europe and Cuban male sex workers and their families within the context of Havana's queer-erotic economies. Whereas male sex workers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean tend to conceal their male clients from their families, Cuban sexual laborers in this study incorporated queer foreigners into kinship imaginar-ies. Such bonds often conferred the rights and obligations of kin, while “blood” kinship was increasingly described in and subject to financial terms. Motivated by money rather than “blood” or “choice,” kinship ties fostered between foreign gay men and younger male sex workers prompt a rethinking of non-normative kin ties as an alternative to dominant systems of kinship and suggest the political and economic roots of familial bonds more broadly.
AB - In this article, I explore the kinship imaginaries that emerged between gay male tourists from North America and Europe and Cuban male sex workers and their families within the context of Havana's queer-erotic economies. Whereas male sex workers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean tend to conceal their male clients from their families, Cuban sexual laborers in this study incorporated queer foreigners into kinship imaginar-ies. Such bonds often conferred the rights and obligations of kin, while “blood” kinship was increasingly described in and subject to financial terms. Motivated by money rather than “blood” or “choice,” kinship ties fostered between foreign gay men and younger male sex workers prompt a rethinking of non-normative kin ties as an alternative to dominant systems of kinship and suggest the political and economic roots of familial bonds more broadly.
KW - Cuba
KW - Gender and sexuality
KW - Kinship
KW - Latin America and the Caribbean
KW - Sex work
KW - Tourism
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U2 - 10.1353/anq.2015.0040
DO - 10.1353/anq.2015.0040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939216928
SN - 0003-5491
VL - 88
SP - 665
EP - 691
JO - Anthropological Quarterly
JF - Anthropological Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -