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URBAN HOUSING, SURVEILLANCE, AND PARTY POLITICS IN CUBA
by
Erica Michelle Angert
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Erica Michelle Angert
Object Description
| Title | Urban housing, surveillance, and party politics in Cuba |
| Author | Angert, Erica Michelle |
| Author email | ericaangert@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Anthropology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-03-29 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-04-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lutkehaus, Nancy |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Mattingly, Cheryl Lawlor, Mary |
| Abstract | In this thesis I argue that the profound crisis known as the "Special Period" faced by the Cuban socialist state upon the disintegration of the Soviet Union created a series of unexpected opportunities for upward mobility among traditionally marginalized sectors of its urban population. Making a very efficient use of space, traditional practices and survival networks, members of these popular sectors were able to use a combination of strategies such as cooptation, translation, appropriation, and ultimate transformation of official policies, surveillance techniques, and discourses to achieve what could be considered the most radical social change in Cuba since the Revolution of 1959.; Fieldwork for this study was carried out among residents of a low-income tenement known as a solar in Havana. The individual chapters examine extended forms of kinship, the architectural logic of a solar, and Santeria religious celebrations designed to improve connections between living and deceased individuals. |
| Keyword | Havana; Santeria; national identity; solar; marginality; healing; poverty |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m353 |
| Rights | Angert, Erica Michelle |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Angert-20070405 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Angert-20070405.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | URBAN HOUSING, SURVEILLANCE, AND PARTY POLITICS IN CUBA by Erica Michelle Angert A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Erica Michelle Angert |
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