Neighbors, heritage, institutions and entrepreneurs in La Habana vieja. Inside Santo Ángel

Abstract

This article takes us to Santo Ángel, a little neighborhood of La Habana Vieja exposed over a short space of time to new forms of the market economy. The research documents social relationships between older residents-and their private heritage-public institutions, new neighbors, new entrepreneurs, new workers and international tourists. It also analyses the process of social and economic transformation from a stable, similar and reciprocity-based community to an uncertain, complex and differential one.