Empirical Futures : Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz /
edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie.
Bok Engelsk 1983 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Williamsburg : Department of Anthropology , 1983
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (241 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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.. - 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
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| ISBN | 0807895342. - 1469604558. - 9780807895344. - 9781469604558
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