Sidney W Mintz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3587443 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sidney W Mintz |
| PRENOMES | Sidney W |
| SOBRENOME | Mintz |
| ASSINATURA | MINTZ S W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 134 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1256 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1950 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Was the Plantation Slave a Proletarian
Between the beginnings of the African slave trade to the New World, shortly after 1500, and the abolition of slavery in the last New World territories where it had remained legal (Puerto Rico: 1873–1876; Cuba: 1886; Brazil: 1888), probably more than 9,000,000 enslaved Africans were shipped westward across the Atlantic. 1 The institution embodied in the capture, sale, transportation, and exploitation of African slaves in the western hemisphere thu…
Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan
Exploring the dynamics of development and dependency, this book traces the experience of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Chih-ming Ka shows how, unlike in other sugar-producing colonies, Taiwan was able to sustain its indigenous family farms and small-scale rice millers, who not only survived but thrived in competition with Japanese sugar capital. Focusing on Taiwan's success, the author reassesses theories of capitalist transformation of co…
Caribbean Transformations
Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introducto…
And the Rest Is History
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucatán
The Plantation
Taso's Life
This article uses the life history of Taso Zayas to illustrate a significant broadening in the scope of anthropological research. Taso's story, as presented in The People of Puerto Rico, marked anthropology's willingness to consider different forms of cultural variety, rather than focusing solely on so-called "primitive" peoples. Oral history and life history, two aspects of historical research that have corroborated their importance, engage in a…
Imperialism on the Cheap
Did the Puerto Rico Project Have Consequences? A Personal View
Those of us who participated as fieldworkers in the Puerto Rico Project gathered regularly at the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) during the eighteen months we were in the field to compare notes, discuss our work together, and advance our research cooperatively. During that time a distinct difference between our integration in the communities where we were working and in the university community where we gathered became apparent to some o…
Cultura
Define-se cultura como uma propriedade humana ímpar, baseada em uma forma simbólica, 'relacionada ao tempo', de comunicação, vida social, e a qualidade cumulativa de interação humana, permitindo que as ideias, a tecnologia e a cultura material se "empilhem" no interior dos grupos humanos
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...
Food and Diaspora
Institutional mysteries
First paragraph]Africa and the Americas: Interconnections During the Slave Trade. José C. Curto & Renenée Soulodrere-La France (eds.). Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2005. vii + 338 pp. (Paper US$ 29.95)Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas. Gwenendolyn Midlo Hall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xxii + 225 pp. (Cloth US$ 34.95)The forced movement of enslaved Africans to the New World – before the nineteenth cent…
Andre "Gunder" Frank (1929-2005)
Commentary
Central Africa in the Caribbean
Students of Afro-America interpret variously the cultural materials carried by the descendants of the African slaves brought to the New World. Some see those materials primarily in terms of the struggles that slaves waged to perpetuate and protect the African heritage they carried with them into the horrors of slavery. Others view those same materials in terms of slaves’ creative capacity to synthesize new cultural forms from their ancestral know…
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
Forces of Habit
Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book provides the …
The Anthropology of Food and Eating
The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history of the subfield. We concentrate primarily, however, on works published after 1984. We contend that the study of food and eating is important both for its own sake since food is utterly essential to human existence (and oft…
An Analysis of Ritual Co-Parenthood (Compadrazgo)
This article analyzes the institution of ritual co-parenthood (compadrazgo) as a mechanism for structuring interpersonal relationships in Latin American communities. Mintz and Wolf argue that compadrazgo, beyond its religious connotations, serves crucial social functions. It extends kinship ties beyond the immediate family, creating a network of reciprocal obligations and support. The authors explore variations in compadrazgo practices across dif…
Enduring Substances, Trying Theories
L'anthropologie culturelle a mis longtemps a s'interesser aux Antilles, sans doute parce que les cultures qui la composent different vivement de ce que l'on considere generalement comme son sujet veritable. L'« oikoumene » antillaise, premiere region du monde non-occidental a avoir subi une periode d'occidentalisation intensive, est d'une certaine maniere devenue « moderne » avant l'Europe elle-meme. Si l'histoire lui a concede une certaine coher…
The Localization of Anthropological Practice
■ By examining the history of migration in the 19th century, the author finds grounds for contending that the view of transnationalism as a qualitatively different phenomenon is exaggerated, and the rejection of such terms as 'com munity', 'culture' and 'region' unnecessary or premature. The Caribbean region emerges as representative of an earlier transnational (or international) era, beginning with conquest, enslavement and the plantation econom…
A note on the definition of peasantries
More important than an abstract definition of 'the peasantry' is the development of typologies of rural socio‐economic groupings. Such typologies should facilitate controlled comparisons between societies whose rural sociology reveals broadly similar structures. They might include the following features: the internal composition of the so‐called peasant sector; the relationships of different parts of that sector to other, non‐peasant rural groups…
The so-called world system
Men, Women, and Trade
This paper considers one aspect of the relationship between social organization and certain sorts of economic activity, using a particular setting, the internal market system in peasant societies (Mintz, 1959), as a frame of reference. The argument proceeds from the well-known fact that, in many of these market systems, much or even most of the distributive activity is carried on by women, and these women often engage in commerce more or less ind…
The rural proletariat and the problem of rural proletarian consciousness
The rural proletariat' has been employed as a sociological category to describe Caribbean populations for nearly 25 years, but confusion about such populations persists. Proletarianisation, the definition of rural proletariats, and the Marxist conception of consciousness, as applicable to such groups, are discussed in the following paper. The Cuban case is described to exemplify the European bias of some analysts, and the difficulties created by …
Comida e antropologia
Este trabalho é uma revisão de certas tendências na pesquisa antropológica sobre a comida: do estudo de comunidades e sociedades supostamente auto-contidas a obras sobre certas mercadorias (como açúcar, arroz ou atum), o sistema mundial de alimentos, o cultivo de alimentos etnicamente neutralizados, a situação alimentar mundial, a fome e possíveis implicações no futuro. Mostra-se que a globalização é muito mais antiga do que em geral se reconhece…
The Sensation of Moving, While Standing Still
The Folk-Urban Continuum and the Rural Proletarian Community
This paper challenges the traditional dichotomy between "folk" and "urban" societies, proposing instead a continuum along which communities can be placed. Mintz focuses on the rural proletarian community in Jamaica, demonstrating how it exhibits characteristics of both folk and urban life. He argues that these communities, while geographically rural and retaining some folk traditions, are significantly influenced by their integration into the cap…
The Culture History of a Puerto Rican Sugar Cane Plantation
The present article is an attempt to combine the analysis of historical documents with the use of data from aged informants for purposes of historical reconstruction. The subject is the changing way of life of the people living in a community on the south coast of Puerto Rico; the aim, to show the relationship of social forms to the prevailing agricultural system. Field work in a south-coast community in 1948-1949 provided first-hand materials fo…
Caribbean Transformations
Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introducto…
Sows' Ears and Silver Linings
Globalization, changing views of science, and alterations in the culture concept have gradually modified the way fieldwork is perceived within anthropology. This paper briefly examines the contributions of four ethnographers in order to argue that ethnography based on fieldwork remains essential to our definition as a profession. The claim is made here that unless anthropologists continue to make fieldwork central, anthropological theory will be …
The Anthropological Interview and the Life History
1979). The Anthropological Interview and the Life History. The Oral History Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 18-26
Caribbean Marketplaces and Caribbean History
Research Article| January 01 1983 Caribbean Marketplaces and Caribbean History Sidney W. Mintz Sidney W. Mintz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1983) 1983 (27): 110-120. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1983-27-110 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sidney W. Mintz; Caribbean Marketplaces and Caribbean History. Radical History Review 1 January 1983; 1983 (27):…
Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean
Reply to Michael Taussig
Remise en cause de l'interpretation de M.T. des referents conceptuels (marxistes) et de leur utilisation dans le cadre d'une anthropologie historique de l'objectivation capitaliste du monde que proposent ces auteurs
Living fences in the Fond-des-Nègres Region, Haiti
Slavery, Colonialism, and Racism
Historical Sociology of the Jamacain Church-founded free Village system
And the Rest Is History
The Dominican People, 1850-1900. Notes for a Historical Sociology
Reflections on Caribbean peasantries
Consisting of perhaps fifty separate countries and territories, most of them insular but not all; the oldest colonial sphere in the European world outside Europe, conquered, settled and developed by a dozen different powers the Caribbean region discourages ambitious attempts at comparison. Not surprisingly the application of the concept of the peasantry to the Caribbean region has so far been rather limited in character. The peasantry is not an o…
The Role of the Middleman in the Internal Distribution System of a Caribbean Peasant Economy
This article examines the role of the middleman in the internal distribution system of a Caribbean peasant economy. Mintz challenges the prevailing negative stereotypes of middlemen as parasitic exploiters, arguing that they perform essential economic functions. He focuses on the marketing of agricultural produce in Jamaica, demonstrating how middlemen facilitate the flow of goods from dispersed rural producers to urban consumers. The study highl…
An Analysis of Ritual Co-Parenthood (Compadrazgo)
This article analyzes the institution of ritual co-parenthood (compadrazgo) as a mechanism for structuring interpersonal relationships in Latin American communities. Mintz and Wolf argue that compadrazgo, beyond its religious connotations, serves crucial social functions. It extends kinship ties beyond the immediate family, creating a network of reciprocal obligations and support. The authors explore variations in compadrazgo practices across dif…
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 Culture History of a Puerto Rican Sugar Cane Plantation
The present article is an attempt to combine the analysis of historical documents with the use of data from aged informants for purposes of historical reconstruction. The subject is the changing way of life of the people living in a community on the south coast of Puerto Rico; the aim, to show the relationship of social forms to the prevailing agricultural system. Field work in a south-coast community in 1948-1949 provided first-hand materials fo…
The Folk-Urban Continuum and the Rural Proletarian Community
This paper challenges the traditional dichotomy between "folk" and "urban" societies, proposing instead a continuum along which communities can be placed. Mintz focuses on the rural proletarian community in Jamaica, demonstrating how it exhibits characteristics of both folk and urban life. He argues that these communities, while geographically rural and retaining some folk traditions, are significantly influenced by their integration into the cap…
On Redfield and Foster1
Estampas de Honduras. Doris Stone
This Issue, and Others
Developments Towards Self‐Government in the Caribbean
The Role of the Middleman in the Internal Distribution System of a Caribbean Peasant Economy
This article examines the role of the middleman in the internal distribution system of a Caribbean peasant economy. Mintz challenges the prevailing negative stereotypes of middlemen as parasitic exploiters, arguing that they perform essential economic functions. He focuses on the marketing of agricultural produce in Jamaica, demonstrating how middlemen facilitate the flow of goods from dispersed rural producers to urban consumers. The study highl…
The People of Puerto Rico
San Andrés and Providencia
The People of Puerto Rico
Other
General and Theoretical
General and Theoretical
Other
Historical Sociology of the Jamacain Church-founded free Village system
Ethnology and Ethnography
Vassouras. A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900
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,…
"Field Work" Biography
General and Ethnology
Windward Children
Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean
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