Empirical futures
Subtitle: anthropologists and historians engage the work of Sidney W. Mintz
By: edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie.
Contributors: Baca, George.; Khan, Aisha.; Palmié, Stephan.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807833452; 9780807859889
Subjects: Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, -- 1922-; Ethnology -- Methodology; Anthropology and history; Ethnology -- America; Globalization -- Social aspects
Description: 232 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Space, time, and history : the conceptual limits of globalization / Frederick Cooper; title: Beyond sugar revolutions : rethinking the Spanish Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Juan Giusti-Cordero; title: Microhistory set in motion : a nineteenth-Century Atlantic Creole Itinerary / Rebecca J. Scott; title: Abstinence and power : the place of prohibition in American history / Jane Schneider; title: Evidence and power, sweet and sour / Virginia R. Dominguez; title: Jealous women in the cane / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington; title: Toward an anthropology of excess : wanting more (while getting less) on a Caribbean global periphery / Samuel Mart?nez.