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
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| 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
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0455-8 |
| 0-8078-9534-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456373803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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