Inside the revolution
Subtitle: everyday life in socialist Cuba
By: Mona Rosendahl.
Series: Anthropology of contemporary issues
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Socialism -- Cuba -- Palmera; Political culture -- Cuba -- Palmera; Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959 -- Social aspects; Palmera (Cuba) -- Social conditions
Description: 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.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index.