{"product_id":"empirical-futures-anthropologists-and-historians-engage-the-work-of-sidney-w-mintz-paperback","title":"Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Baca\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAisha Khan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephan Palmié\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of \u003ci\u003eSweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and historians serves as an intervention that rests on Mintz's rigorously historicist ethnographic work, which has long predicted the methodological crisis in anthropology today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors to this volume build on Mintzean interdisciplinarity to provide productive ways to theorize the everyday life of local groups and communities, nation-states, and regions and the interconnections among them. Consisting of theoretical and case studies of Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Papua New Guinea, \u003ci\u003eEmpirical Futures\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how Mintzean perspectives advance our understanding of the relationship among empirical approaches, the uses of ethnographic and historical data and theory-building, and the study of these from both local and global vantage points.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eGeorge Baca, Goucher College\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Cooper, New York University\u003cbr\u003eVirginia R. Dominguez, University of Illinois\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Errington, Trinity College\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Gewertz, Amherst College\u003cbr\u003eJuan Giusti-Cordero, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras\u003cbr\u003eAisha Khan, New York University\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Martinez, University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003eStephan Palmie, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003eJane Schneider, City University of New York Graduate Center\u003cbr\u003eRebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of \u003ci\u003eSweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate \"globalization studies.\" Yet 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 and historians serves as an intervention that rests on Mintz's rigorously historicist ethnographic work, which has long predicted the methodological crisis in anthropology today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors to this volume build on Mintzean interdisciplinarity to provide productive ways to theorize the everyday life of local groups and communities, nation-states, and regions and the interconnections among them. Consisting of theoretical and case studies of Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Papua New Guinea, \u003ci\u003eEmpirical Futures\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how a Mintzean approach advances the study of culture, power, and identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors are George Baca, Frederick Cooper, Virginia R. Dominguez, Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz, Juan Giusti-Cordero, Aisha Khan, Samuel Martinez, Stephan Palmie, Jane Schneider, and Rebecca J. Scott. The editors are George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors to this volume address a current methodological crisis in anthropology today by turning to the methods promoted by Sidney W. Mintz, who has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history for several decades and was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique \"globalization studies.\" Essays by leading anthropologists and historians collected here present case studies of Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Papua New Guinea that demonstrate the productive use of Mintz's approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52617737535795,"sku":"9780807859889","price":75.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eDJiK1c1QnkrVzRKdXo4RXNpMldvdz09.webp?v=1761893766","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/empirical-futures-anthropologists-and-historians-engage-the-work-of-sidney-w-mintz-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}