Empirical futures [electronic resource] : anthropologists and historians engage the work of Sidney W. Mintz / edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, and Stephan Palmié.

9781469604558 (ebook) :

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

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Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. 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.

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May 06, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.