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Empirical futures [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists and historians engage the work of Sidney W. Mintz / / edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie



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Titolo: Empirical futures [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists and historians engage the work of Sidney W. Mintz / / edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 305.8001
Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Methodology
Anthropology and history
Ethnology - America
Globalization - Social aspects
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: BacaGeorge  
KhanAisha  
PalmiéStephan  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Empirical futures  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0455-8
0-8078-9534-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456373803321
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