What do pigeons, antennas, lottery, mosquitoes, congas, and cactuses have in common? Aerial Imagination in Cuba offers a series of ethnographic accounts to explore various practices and beliefs that have seemingly nothing in common; but if you look at the sky, there is more than meets the eye. By discussing the natural, religious and human-made invisible aerial infrastructures -or systems of circulation -through short illustrated vignettes, photographic montage, and the written text, this book offers a highly creative way of exploring aerial imagination, media and infrastructure, and visual anthropology in a context of rapid transformation. Aerial Imagination in Cuba is a visual, ethnographic, sensorial and poetic engagement with how Cubans imagine the sky as a medium that allows things and data to circulate more or less freely. It will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, Cuban studies, Latin American studies, media/communication studies, infrastructure studies, and cultural studies.
Aerial Imagination in Cuba : Stories from above the Rooftops