Sidney Mintz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidney Mintz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidney |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintz |
| SIGNATURE | MINTZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
And the Rest Is History
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucatán
Remarks in Memory of John Victor Murra
I knew John Murra for half of his life, and -I am still counting-nearly two thirds of mine. But when I tried to figure out what I might best say here today, that would stand for my own feelings -for what the loss of John means to me, and what I think it means to our profession-I found it difficult to formulate my thoughts
Notes toward a cultural construction of modern foods
The creation of a scientifically pure sweetness was a historical process comparable to the standardisation of cooking oil or salt. But the case of sugar is almost unique. Today, quite different processes, concerned more with marketing than with chemistry, serve to elaborate, multiply and reshuffle products. These have the common objective of enlarging the aggregate market. They play upon taste, class aspiration and otherwise, to diversify the mar…
Summary Comments
This article provides a set of summary comments on the articles written in response to Manning's book. It also comments on Manning's book itself by highlighting its elegant sweeping account, while also reminding the reader that humans are cultural creatures with agency to change the messes Manning articulates
Asia's Contributions to World Cuisine
The movement of food ingredients, cooking methods and dishes across the earth's surface is ancient, and in large measure only poorly recorded. While the West has documented its contributions to global cuisine, those of the rest of the world are less well recognized. This paper takes note of Asia's role in enriching the world's foods, both nutritively and in terms of diversity and taste
Response
I am grateful to the commentators, not only for their gentle handling of a book that is now of voting age, but also for their willingness to let me read drafts of their remarks before responding. T...
Andre "Gunder" Frank (1929-2005)
The Diligent
Finding the Individual in the Global
This paper brings together two strands of anthropological theory that may be fruitfully combined but that are combined only rarely: globalization and the individual life history. Globalization, the paper argues, is not new, despite the rhetoric with which it is described in much of anthropology today; it has been taking place at least since the discovery of the New World by Europeans, after which unprecedented ruptures between people and places b…
Remembrance of Repasts
Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. David E. Sutton. Oxford: Berg, 2001. ix. 211 pp., photographs, references, index
Heroes Sung and Unsung
Material Culture, Cultural Material
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.'Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language.When asked to write for a special issue of Diogenes to be entitled 'Anthropology: The Reluctant science?' I was reminded of a remark made to me over dinner by my friend of more than fift…
L' Appétit Vient en Mangeant
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Foods and the Making of Americans. Donna R. Gabaccia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.288 pp.No Foreign Foods: The American Diet in Time and Place. Richard Pillsbury. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.262 pp.Sociology on the Menu: An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society. Alan Beardsworth and Teresa Keil. New York: Routledge, 1997. 278 pp.Food Preferences and Taste: Continuity and Change. Helen Macbe…
Centring the Periphery
The sugar cane industry
Interim Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Implement the 1972 Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women in Anthropology
Final Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Implement the 1972 Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women
Development and Change
Other
Ethnology and Ethnography
Labor and Sugar in Puerto Rico and in Jamaica, 1800-1850
The islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica, which lie roughly at the same latitude and less than 600 miles apart at their nearest points, share a number of remarkable similarities in general physical environment. Strikingly in contrast to the similarities in topography, climate, flora and fauna are the differences in the cultures of the two islands. One of the reasons for this cultural disparity has to do not with the cultures of the colonial powers,…
General and Theoretical
General and Theoretical
Other
And the Rest Is History
Remembrance of Repasts
Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. David E. Sutton. Oxford: Berg, 2001. ix. 211 pp., photographs, references, index
Labor and Sugar in Puerto Rico and in Jamaica, 1800-1850
The islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica, which lie roughly at the same latitude and less than 600 miles apart at their nearest points, share a number of remarkable similarities in general physical environment. Strikingly in contrast to the similarities in topography, climate, flora and fauna are the differences in the cultures of the two islands. One of the reasons for this cultural disparity has to do not with the cultures of the colonial powers,…
The sugar cane industry
Andre "Gunder" Frank (1929-2005)
The Diligent
Finding the Individual in the Global
This paper brings together two strands of anthropological theory that may be fruitfully combined but that are combined only rarely: globalization and the individual life history. Globalization, the paper argues, is not new, despite the rhetoric with which it is described in much of anthropology today; it has been taking place at least since the discovery of the New World by Europeans, after which unprecedented ruptures between people and places b…
General and Theoretical
B.B.A.A. Boletin Bibliografico de Antropologia Americana, Vol. XIV, 1951
B.B.A.A. Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana, Vol. XIV, 1951
The People of Puerto Rico
Other
General and Theoretical
General and Theoretical
Other
Ethnology and Ethnography
Labor and Sugar in Puerto Rico and in Jamaica, 1800-1850
The islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica, which lie roughly at the same latitude and less than 600 miles apart at their nearest points, share a number of remarkable similarities in general physical environment. Strikingly in contrast to the similarities in topography, climate, flora and fauna are the differences in the cultures of the two islands. One of the reasons for this cultural disparity has to do not with the cultures of the colonial powers,…
Other
Development and Change
Interim Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Implement the 1972 Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women in Anthropology
Final Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Implement the 1972 Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women
The sugar cane industry
Centring the Periphery
L' Appétit Vient en Mangeant
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Foods and the Making of Americans. Donna R. Gabaccia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.288 pp.No Foreign Foods: The American Diet in Time and Place. Richard Pillsbury. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.262 pp.Sociology on the Menu: An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society. Alan Beardsworth and Teresa Keil. New York: Routledge, 1997. 278 pp.Food Preferences and Taste: Continuity and Change. Helen Macbe…
Material Culture, Cultural Material
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.'Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language.When asked to write for a special issue of Diogenes to be entitled 'Anthropology: The Reluctant science?' I was reminded of a remark made to me over dinner by my friend of more than fift…
Heroes Sung and Unsung
Remembrance of Repasts
Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. David E. Sutton. Oxford: Berg, 2001. ix. 211 pp., photographs, references, index
Finding the Individual in the Global
This paper brings together two strands of anthropological theory that may be fruitfully combined but that are combined only rarely: globalization and the individual life history. Globalization, the paper argues, is not new, despite the rhetoric with which it is described in much of anthropology today; it has been taking place at least since the discovery of the New World by Europeans, after which unprecedented ruptures between people and places b…
The Diligent
Andre "Gunder" Frank (1929-2005)
Response
I am grateful to the commentators, not only for their gentle handling of a book that is now of voting age, but also for their willingness to let me read drafts of their remarks before responding. T...
Notes toward a cultural construction of modern foods
The creation of a scientifically pure sweetness was a historical process comparable to the standardisation of cooking oil or salt. But the case of sugar is almost unique. Today, quite different processes, concerned more with marketing than with chemistry, serve to elaborate, multiply and reshuffle products. These have the common objective of enlarging the aggregate market. They play upon taste, class aspiration and otherwise, to diversify the mar…
Summary Comments
This article provides a set of summary comments on the articles written in response to Manning's book. It also comments on Manning's book itself by highlighting its elegant sweeping account, while also reminding the reader that humans are cultural creatures with agency to change the messes Manning articulates
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