Three Ancient Colonies - Caribbean Themes and Variations

Informationen zum Autor Sidney W. Mintz was Research Professor and William L. Straus, Jr., Professor, Emeritus, in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He was the author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past , among others. Zusammenfassung As a young anthropologist! the author undertook fieldwork in Jamaica! Haiti! and Puerto Rico. This title presents a summation of his work in the region and is a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined.

Product details

• Authors: Sidney W Mintz, Sidney W. Mintz
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2012
• EAN: 9780674066212
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06621-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures; The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology