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

• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 1-4696-0455-8; 0-8078-9534-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780836103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II