Sidney W. Mintz Research Professor Department of Anthropology The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218. Education. 1943 B.A. (Psychology), Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1951 Ph.D. (Anthropology), Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Teaching Experience

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

2016年3月8日 · Before there was a long list of one-word-titled, bestselling histories about globe-shaping commodities, there was Sidney Mintz’s ur text of the ur commodity of the modern world, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985). With it, Mintz’s accomplishments went far beyond launching a new mode of history writing; the book ...

2015年12月29日 · Sidney Mintz, co-founder of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology and the William L. Straus Jr. Professor Emeritus, died Dec. 27 of head trauma related to a fall he experienced while traveling in New …

As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the societies and on the island people who befriended him.

2015年12月31日 · Sidney Mintz, a renowned American Jewish scholar credited with creating the field of “food anthropology,” died this week at the age of 93, US media reported on Thursday.

2019年11月19日 · Sidney Mintz was a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University who wrote about slavery, labor, markets, and food books such as Worker in the Cane (1960), Sweetness and Power (1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom (1996).

Sidney Wilfred Mintz (1922-2015) was an anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food. The collection spans the years 1950 to 2005, and consists of correspondence, lecture notes, course files, administrative records, talks, manuscript edits, and research files.

1985 “From plantations to peasantries in the Caribbean,” in Mintz, S., and S. Price, eds., Caribbean Contours: 127-53. 1985 “Epilogue: the divided aftermaths of freedom,” in Moreno Fraginals, M., F. Moya Pons, and S. L. Engerman eds., Between Slavery and Free Labor: 270-78. 1985 “Die Zeit, der Zucker und das Süsze.

2016年1月4日 · Sid Mintz was the greatest food anthropologist of all time. A dedicated social-justice scholar-activist, he produced path-breaking studies of Caribbean sugar-cane workers ( Worker in the Cane. A Puerta Rican Life History (W.W.Norton, 1974), then turned his attention to the larger political-economic context in which sugar transformed diets and ...