Masculinities and intimacies: performance and negotiation in a transnational tourist town in Caribbean Costa Rica
| dc.contributor.author | Maksymowicz, Kristofer | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Buddle-Crowe, Kathleen (Anthropology) Churchill, David (History) | en |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Frohlick, Susan (Anthropology) | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-24T15:37:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-24T15:37:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-09-24T15:37:12Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Anthropology | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, a transnational tourist town located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, masculinities are expressed and embodied in multiple ways as a result of particular interactions that take place at the convergence of the global and the local. This thesis interrogates the masculine performances of Western tourist men in the context of a hierarchy of desirability complexly located at the intersections of sexuality, tourism, and globalization. Specifically, I argue that tourist men construct their masculinities in contestational and oppositional ways to those of local Caribbean men - constructions mediated through their homosocial encounters with men (both local Caribbean and foreign men), as well as their heterosexual intimate relationships with local women – in order to increase their statuses as more sexually desirable subjects in Puerto Viejo’s sexual landscape. | en |
| dc.description.note | October 2010 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 993770 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4251 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | masculinities | en |
| dc.subject | tourism | en |
| dc.subject | Caribbean | en |
| dc.subject | Costa Rica | en |
| dc.subject | sexuality | en |
| dc.subject | intimacy | en |
| dc.title | Masculinities and intimacies: performance and negotiation in a transnational tourist town in Caribbean Costa Rica | en |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |