Empirical futures : anthropologists and historians engage the work of Sidney W. Mintz / edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmié.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baca, George.

Khan, Aisha, 1955-

Palmié, Stephan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015.

Mintz, Sidney W.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Anthropology and history.

Ethnology--America.

America.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]

Summary:

Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate "globalization studies." Yet a strong tradition of epistemologically sophisticated and theoretically informed empiricism of the sort advanced by Mintz has yet to become a cornerstone of contemporary anthropological scholarship. This collection of essays by leading anthropologists and historians serves as an intervention that rests on Mintz's rigorously historicist ethnographic work, which has long predicted the methodological crisis in anthropology today.

Contributors to this volume build on Mintzian interdisciplinarity to provide productive ways to theorize the everyday life of local groups and communities, nation-states, and regions and the interconnections among them. Consisting of theoretical and case studies of Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Papua New Guinea, Empirical Futures demonstrates how a Mintzian approach advances the study of culture, power, and identity.

Contents:

Space, time, and history : the conceptual limits of globalization / Frederick Cooper

Beyond sugar revolutions : rethinking the Spanish Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Juan Giusti-Cordero

Microhistory set in motion : a nineteenth-century Atlantic Creole itinerary / Rebecca J. Scott

Abstinence and power : the place of prohibition in American history / Jane Schneider

Evidence and power, sweet and sour / Virginia R. Dominguez

Jealous women in the cane / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington

Toward an anthropology of excess : wanting more (while getting less) on a Caribbean global periphery / Samuel Martínez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807833452

0807833452

9780807859889

0807859885

OCLC:

317929527