Sidney Wilfred Mintz (November 16, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food. Mintz received his PhD at Columbia University in 1951 and conducted his primary fieldwork among sugar-cane workers in Puerto Rico.

Dec 30, 2015 · Sidney W. Mintz, a renowned cultural anthropologist who provocatively linked Britain’s insatiable sweet tooth with slavery, capitalism and imperialism, died on Dec. 27 in Plainsboro, N.J. He...

Mar 8, 2016 · 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 ...

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

Nov 19, 2019 · 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).

Jan 4, 2016 · 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.

Dec 31, 2015 · 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.

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.

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

Professor Sidney Mintz – “Anthropologist in the Cane” – Passes. Professor Sidney Mintz, a great pioneer of Caribbean anthropology and Caribbean Studies passed away on December 27, 2015. Mintz was 93.

Mar 22, 2016 · The founder of an entire academic discipline – The New York Times called him “the father of food anthropology” – Sidney Mintz caused academic shockwaves when he linked Britain's sweet ...

In a professional career spanning over six decades, Sidney Mintz (1922–2015) had an immense influence on anthropology, history, Caribbean studies, food studies, and the interdisciplinary study of commodity circuits across time and space.

Mintz demonstrated once again that no present-day human life can be understood without taking into account global market forces but at the same time he stressed the humanist mandate of modern ethnography.

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.

Jan 4, 2016 · Last week, the field was saddened to learn of the passing of food historian Sidney Mintz at the age of 93. He died on December 26th after a fall. Born in Dover, New Jersey, in 1922, Mintz received his PhD in Anthropology from Columbia in 1951.

Jan 1, 2001 · In Sweetness and Power, a 1985 text by anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz, the author sets out to uncover the meaning and place of sugar in the modern world (specifically England) and how it came to be. For this task, Mintz is more qualified than most; he is an anthropologist and has personal experience working in and around Caribbean sugar ...

Dec 26, 2016 · Reflecting on Sidney Mintz's legacy in anthropology with Sweetness and Power. Teaching Introduction to Anthropology as Global History & Interconnection.

May 9, 2019 · Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015. Publication date 1985 Topics ... Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015. Publication date 1985 Topics

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Mintz wrote brilliantly about how to theorise meaningfully about the Caribbean as a whole, arguing that current debates about globalization, transnationalism and creolization attributed too much historical novelty to these processes.