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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Psychology Brooklyn College

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According to Wikipedia, Sidney Wilfred Mintz 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. Later expanding his ethnographic research to Haiti and Jamaica, he produced historical and ethnographic studies of slavery and global capitalism, cultural hybridity, Caribbean peasants, and the political economy of food commodities. He taught for two decades at Yale University before helping to found the Anthropology Department at Johns Hopkins University, where he remained for the duration of his career. Mintz's history of sugar, Sweetness and Power, is considered one of the most influential publications in cultural anthropology and food studies.

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Sidney Mintz's Published Works

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Published Works

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1986) (2299)
The Anthropology of Food and Eating (2002) (865)
An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2004) (692)
The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (1992) (411)
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past (1998) (331)
An Analysis of Ritual Co-Parenthood (Compadrazgo) (1950) (270)
Enduring Substances, Trying Theories: The Caribbean Region as Oikoumene (1996) (205)
An anthropological approach to the Afro-American past : a Caribbean perspective (1976) (195)
The Localization of Anthropological Practice (1998) (173)
The People Of Puerto Rico (1957) (139)
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 (1993) (130)
A note on the definition of peasantries (1973) (127)
Worker in the cane : a Puerto Rican life history (1964) (116)
The Birth Of African-American Culture (1992) (111)
The so-called world system: Local initiative and local response (1977) (109)
Men, Women, and Trade (1971) (102)
The rural proletariat and the problem of rural proletarian consciousness (1974) (95)
Time, sugar and sweetness. (1979) (87)
The origins of the Jamaican internal marketing system. (1960) (87)
Vassouras. A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900. (1957) (81)
Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History (1961) (72)
Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations (2010) (63)
The Folk-Urban Continuum and the Rural Proletarian Community (1953) (59)
The Anthropological Interview and the Life History (1979) (51)
Slavery and the Rise of Peasantries (1979) (47)
Worker in the cane (1960) (45)
Was the Plantation Slave a Proletarian? (2018) (42)
Labor and Sugar in Puerto Rico and in Jamaica, 1800–1850 (1959) (37)
Can Haiti Change (1995) (36)
the sensation of moving, while standing still (1989) (34)
The Culture History of a Puerto Rican Sugar Cane Plantation: 1876-1949 (1953) (33)
Community and Nation (1963) (31)
Comments on the Socio-Historical Background to Pidginization and Creolization. (1969) (29)
The Dominican People, 1850-1900. Notes for a Historical Sociology (1983) (29)
The People of Puerto Rico Half a Century Later: One Author's Recollections (2001) (27)
The employment of capital by market women in Haiti. (1964) (27)
Behind Many Masks: Ethnography and Impression Management in a Himalayan Village. Gerald D. Berreman (1963) (26)
A Tentative Typology of Eight Haitian Marketplaces. (1960) (25)
Food Patterns in Agrarian Societies: The ''Core-Fringe-Legume Hypothesis'' A Dialogue (2001) (22)
Historical Sociology of the Jamacain Church-founded free Village system (1958) (22)
The Anthropology of Ourselves: An Interview with Sidney W. Mintz (2006) (21)
Reply to Michael Taussig (1989) (20)
The Role of the Middleman in the Internal Distribution System of a Caribbean Peasant Economy (1956) (19)
Standards of Value and Units of Measure in the Fond-des-Negres Market Place, Haiti (1961) (19)
Caribbean Marketplaces and Caribbean History (1983) (19)
Groups, Group Boundaries and the Perception of ‘Race’ (1971) (19)
Puerto Rico: An Essay In The Definition Of A National Culture (1966) (18)
Slavery, Colonialism, and Racism (1976) (16)
History, Evolution and the Concept of Culture: Selected Papers by Alexander Lesser (1985) (15)
Food and Diaspora (2008) (15)
Sows' Ears and Silver Linings (2000) (14)
Food, culture and energy. (2008) (13)
Reflections on Caribbean peasantries (1983) (13)
On the concept of a Third World (1975) (12)
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (2005) (12)
Bean-Curd Consumption in Hong Kong (2001) (11)
Early uses of soybean in Chinese history. (2008) (11)
The world of soy. (2008) (10)
Understanding and Participant Observation in Cultural and Social Anthropology (1969) (10)
And the Rest Is History: A Conversation with Sidney Mintz (2014) (10)
Living fences in the Fond-des-Nègres Region, Haiti (1962) (10)
Culture: an Anthropological View (2010) (9)
Papers in Caribbean anthropology (1960) (9)
North american anthropological contributions to caribbean studies (1977) (9)
Creolization and Hispanic Exceptionalisrn (2016) (8)
Did the Puerto Rico Project Have Consequences? A Personal View (2011) (7)
Working papers in Haitian society and culture (1976) (7)
The Forefathers of Crack (1989) (7)
Windward Children: A Study in Human Ecology of the Three Dutch Windward Islands in the Caribbean. (1961) (7)
Slavery, Colonialism, and Racism. (1978) (7)
Is IPE just ‘ boring ’ , 1 or committed to problematic meta-theoretical assumptions ? A critical engagement with the politics of method * (2015) (6)
Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Culture (2005) (6)
Fermented soybean products and Japanese standard taste. (2008) (6)
Sweet, Salt, and the Language of Love (1991) (5)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Slavery. Stanley M. Elkins (1961) (5)
PUERTO RICAN EMIGRATION: A THREEFOLD COMPARISON' (2016) (5)
Fermented soyfoods in South Korea: the industrialization of tradition. (2008) (5)
Asia’s contributions to world cuisine: A beginning inquiry (2007) (5)
Cuisine and haute cuisine: How are they linked? (1989) (5)
Life History (2019) (5)
Currency Problems in Eighteenth Century Jamaica and Gresham’s Law 1 (2017) (5)
This Issue, and Others (1955) (4)
Notes toward a cultural construction of modern foods (2009) (4)
Taso’s Life: Person and Community (2013) (4)
Genetically engineered soy. (2008) (4)
Social context and diet: changing soy production and consumption in the United States. (2008) (4)
The Dignity of Honest Toil: A Review Article (1979) (4)
Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries (2009) (4)
Market Systems and Whole Societies (1964) (4)
Tofu and related products in Chinese foodways. (2008) (3)
Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory:Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. (2003) (3)
Comment on articles by Tomich, McMichael, and Roseberry (1991) (3)
REMARKS IN MEMORY OF JOHN VICTOR MURRA (2010) (3)
Tofu in Vietnamese life. (2008) (3)
An Addictive Commodity (1994) (2)
Economic Anthropology and Development. Essays on Tribal and Peasant Economies. By George Dalton. New York: Basic Books, 1971. Pp. iii–386. $12.50 (1972) (2)
Author's rejoinder (1987) (2)
Material Culture, Cultural Material (1999) (2)
Sweet Polychrest. (1999) (2)
Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country. By José Luis González. (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1993. Pp. 135. Glossary. $12.95.) (1994) (2)
On Redfield and Foster1 (1954) (2)
More on the peculiar institution (1984) (2)
The Anthropology of Food: Core and Fringe in Diet (2016) (2)
Legumes in the history of human nutrition. (2008) (2)
Andre “Gunder” Frank (1929–2005) (2007) (2)
Finding the Individual in the Global (2004) (2)
On Marxian perspectives in anthropology : essays in honor of Harry Hoijer, 1981 (1984) (2)
Social‐science research by North Americans abroad: some reflections (1968) (2)
Soyfoods in Indonesia. (2008) (2)
Food, History and Globalization (2006) (2)
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucatán (2014) (2)
Fermented beans and western taste. (2008) (1)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Markets in Africa. Paul Bohannan and George Dalton (eds.) (1964) (1)
Tofu feasts in Sichuan cuisine. (2008) (1)
EXCITANTIA AND THE EVERYDAY: THE RISE OF PLEBEIAN LUXURIES (1998) (1)
History and Anthropology: A Marriage Made in Heaven (2007) (1)
A note on Useem's ‘peasant involvement in the Cuban revolution’ (1978) (1)
The bromides of gods, the passions of humans (1996) (1)
A SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MARKETING AND MARKETPLACES. (1975) (1)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Trade and Market in the Early Empires. Karl Polanyi, Conrad M. Arensber, and Harry W. Pearson (1958) (1)
Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology. (1996) (1)
Slavery, Colonialism and Racism: Essays (1975) (1)
The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World (review) (2005) (1)
The Contradictory Relationship Between Rice and Sugar (2018) (1)
THE OLD AND NEW WORLD EXCHANGE (1998) (1)
OTHER: The Third World. Peter Worsley (1966) (1)
Global Echoes in the Caribbean Playground (1994) (1)
Cooking, Care, and Domestication: A Culinary Ethnography of the Tax Yong, Northern Thailand (1997) (1)
The “Redlegs” of Barbados . By Jill Sheppard. (Millwood: KTO Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 147. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $12.00.) (1979) (1)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Plural Society in the British West Indies. M. G. Smith (1966) (1)
Peasant Market Places and Economic Development in Latin America (Paper 4, 7/1964) (1964) (1)
Heroes Sung and Unsung (2002) (0)
Development and Change: Latin American Peasant Movements. HENRY A. LANDSBERGER, ed (1971) (0)
How sweet it is--for some (1993) (0)
There can be no doubt about the importance of U.S. anthropologist Sidney Mintz in the development of Caribbean Studies. His work has influenced (2016) (0)
New Lives for Old (1957) (0)
A escravidão e a ascensão de campesinatos. // Slavery and the rise of peasants. (2012) (0)
Land Tenure, Class Relations, and the State in Precolonial Taiwan (1683–1895) (2018) (0)
Time, Sugar, and Sweetness* (2018) (0)
Imperialism on the Cheap (2011) (0)
Puerto Rican Politics and the New Deal. By Thomas Mathews. (Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1960. Pp. xii, 345. $8.00.) (1962) (0)
Whither cultural studies (2001) (0)
Interview with Sidney Mintz (2007) (0)
Peasants in the Modern World. Philip K. Bock, Ed. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1969. vi + 174 pp. Cloth, $6; paper, $2.45 (1970) (0)
Family Farms and the Formation of Surplus Extraction Mechanisms by Sugar Capital (2018) (0)
General and Theoretical: The Economics of Under-developed Countries. Peter T. Bauer and Basil S. Yamey (1958) (0)
San Andrés and Providencia: English‐Speaking Islands in the Western Caribbean. James J. Parsons. (1957) (0)
Book Review:Tropical Childhood: Cultural Transmission and Learning in a Rural Puerto Rican Village. David Landy (1961) (0)
"Field Work" Biography (1960) (0)
FINAL REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT THE 1972 RESOLUTION ON FAIR PRACTICES IN EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN (1979) (0)
Response (2008) (0)
Marooned in Guyana (1978) (0)
Editors' preface An introduction to "Anthropology and the 'truth sciences'" by Claude Lévi-Strauss (2013) (0)
Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Elizabeth Abbott . London and New York: Duckworth Overlook, 2009. x + 453 pp. Illustrations $29.95 (paper). (2011) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Food, Gender and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. Mary J. Weismantel (1990) (0)
GENERAL: Traditional Exchange and Modern Markets. Cyril S. Belshaw (1966) (0)
The significance of soy. (2008) (0)
Loreto Todd. Pidgins and Creoles (1979) (0)
MODERNIZED HINDUISM: DOMESTIC RELIGIOUS LIFE AND WOMEN A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN RELIGION (ASIAN) (2006) (0)
Roger Munting and Tamas Szmrecsanyi (eds), Competing for the sugar bowl (2002) (0)
Provision Grounds (0)
Modernizing Peasant Societies. A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa. Guy Hunter. Published for the Institute of Race Relations, London, by Oxford University Press, New York, 1969. xii + 324 pp. Cloth, $6.50; paper, $2.50 (1970) (0)
The sugar cane industry: an historical geography from its origins to 1914: J. H. Galloway, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 266. £30.00) (1990) (0)
Planter's stock (1999) (0)
GENERAL: Peasants. Eric R. Wolf (1969) (0)
Noncapitalist economies. (1978) (0)
Frederick H. Smith. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 339. $59.00 (2007) (0)
SIDNEY W . MINTZ LECTURE FOR 2002 Anthropology , Sociology , and Other Dubious Disciplines (2003) (0)
The Colonial State, Foreign Capital, and the Articulation of Indigenous Agriculture (2018) (0)
Soy in Bangladesh: history and prospects. (2008) (0)
INTERIM REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT THE 1972 RESOLUTION ON FAIR PRACTICES IN EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN ANTHROPOLOGY (1979) (0)
Other: Underdeveloped Areas. Lyle W. Shannon (1958) (0)
OTHER: Latin America: The Balance of Race Redressed. J. Halcro Ferguson. Foreword by Philip Mason (1963) (0)
Modernization among Peasants. The Impact of Communication. Everett M. Rogers, in association with Lynne Svenning. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1969. xviii + 430 pp., illus. $6.95 (1970) (0)
The Spanish Caribbean (1983) (0)
Another Look at the Backyard: Caribbean Peoples Past and Present (2010) (0)
Bill Albert and Adrian Graves (eds.), The World Sugar Economy in War and Depression, 1914–40 (London and New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. viii + 241, £25.00. (1989) (0)
Developments Towards Self-Government in the Caribbean: A Symposium Held Under The Auspices of the Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation at The Hague, September, 1954 (1956) (0)
Cuba : terre et esclaves (1972) (0)
LAND POLICIES IN JAMAICA, 1830–1940 Claus Füllberg-Stolberg The Basic Conflict between Planters and Peasants “in spe” after Slavery (0)
Soybeans and soybean products in West Africa: adoption by farmers and adaptation to foodways. (2008) (0)
Soy's dominance and destiny. (2008) (0)
Book Reviews -Hoffmann Léon-Francois, J. Michael Dash, Literature and ideology in Haiti 1915-1961. London (2006) (0)
Obeah in British Caribbean slave communities. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. By James Delbourgo. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uni- (2009) (0)
Seeds of Change: Vive Plants That Transformed Mankind. By Henry Hobhouse. (New York: Harper & Row, 1986. xv + 252 pp. $18.95.) (1987) (0)
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848.Robin Blackburn (1989) (0)
TASO'S LIf E: PERSON AND COMMUNITy 1 (2012) (0)
TA SO 'S LI f E: PERSON A ND COM MUNITy 1 (2012) (0)
Two Historical Dictionaries on the Caribbean (1983) (0)
Reseña de "Slavery without sugar. Diversityin caribbean economy and society since the seventeenth century" de Verene A. Shepherd (ed.) (2004) (0)
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834. By B. W. Higman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xxxiii + 781 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00.) (1985) (0)

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