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Empirical futures : anthropologists and historians engage the work of Sidney W. Mintz / edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015.
- Mintz, Sidney W.
- Ethnology--Methodology.
- Ethnology.
- Anthropology and history.
- Ethnology--America.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the 1950's, 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 and critique ""globalization studies."" However, 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 an
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-267-0
- 979-88-908817-1-7
- 1-4696-0455-8
- 0-8078-9534-2
- OCLC:
- 642660995
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