{"product_id":"empirical-futures-george-baca-9780807859889","title":"Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz","description":"Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of \u003ci\u003eSweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e 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 by Mintz has yet to become a cornerstone of contemporary anthropological scholarship. This collection of essays by leading anthropologists and historians serves as an intervention that rests on Mintz's rigorously historicist ethnographic work, which has long predicted the methodological crisis in anthropology today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors to this volume build on Mintzean interdisciplinarity to provide productive ways to theorize the everyday life of local groups and communities, nation-states, and regions and the interconnections among them. Consisting of theoretical and case studies of Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Papua New Guinea, \u003ci\u003eEmpirical Futures\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how Mintzean perspectives advance our understanding of the relationship among empirical approaches, the uses of ethnographic and historical data and theory-building, and the study of these from both local and global vantage points.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003eGeorge Baca, Goucher College\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Cooper, New York University\u003cbr\u003eVirginia R. Dominguez, University of Illinois\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Errington, Trinity College\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Gewertz, Amherst College\u003cbr\u003eJuan Giusti-Cordero, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras\u003cbr\u003eAisha Khan, New York University\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Martinez, University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003eStephan Palmie, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003eJane Schneider, City University of New York Graduate Center\u003cbr\u003eRebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of \u003ci\u003eSweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate \"globalization studies.\" Yet a strong tradition of epistemologically sophisticated and theoretically informed empiricism of the sort advanced by Mintz has yet to become a cornerstone of contemporary anthropological scholarship. This collection of essays by leading anthropologists and historians serves as an intervention that rests on Mintz's rigorously historicist ethnographic work, which has long predicted the methodological crisis in anthropology today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors to this volume build on Mintzean interdisciplinarity to provide productive ways to theorize the everyday life of local groups and communities, nation-states, and regions and the interconnections among them. Consisting of theoretical and case studies of Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Papua New Guinea, \u003ci\u003eEmpirical Futures\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how a Mintzean approach advances the study of culture, power, and identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors are George Baca, Frederick Cooper, Virginia R. Dominguez, Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz, Juan Giusti-Cordero, Aisha Khan, Samuel Martinez, Stephan Palmie, Jane Schneider, and Rebecca J. Scott. The editors are George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmie.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Baca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807859885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807859889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"George Baca","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120282038527,"sku":"9780807859889","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18ef8af1-9c8a-47d5-b8ca-b0566377b932.jpg?v=1687413485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empirical-futures-george-baca-9780807859889","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}