Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz

by Aisha Khan, Stephan Palmié, George Baca

Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807859885
• ISBN13: 9780807859889
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"