Sidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, whose faculty he joined after teaching for two decades at Yale. He is the author of Worker in the Cane, Caribbean Transformations, and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past, co-author of The People of Puerto Rico, and editor of Slavery, Colonialism and Racism.
发表于2024-12-22
Sweetness and Power 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
(一) 去年夏天,苗师傅在《三联生活周刊》专栏上写了一篇《饥饿间奏曲》,围绕食物与社会化这个主题,推荐了三本书,其中一本就是《甜与权力》。 苗师傅在介绍这本书时,提到了一个现象,几百年前,糖在英国还是奢侈品,只有国王和贵族才能享用,而到了20世纪,糖已经成为...
评分很多友邻已经讲这本书的内容做了很好的概括,我也就不再赘述,这篇文章只是写一下由这本书与另外一本书 欧洲与没有历史的人民 Europe and the People Without History 引发的Michael Taussig 与这两本书的作者Mintz and Wolf的一场争论。 这三位作者都是现代马克思主义人类学...
评分终于知道英国菜为什么那么难吃了!因为英国本土资源贫乏,老百姓长期处于极度贫穷中,穷的地方,吃得都不会太讲究的。 英国本土出产的只有小麦(一半面积可种,另外一半地方由于土地过于贫瘠而不行)、黑麦、大麦、豆子(他们没有发明豆腐,所以只能煮着吃,口感问题解决不了...
评分逛超市时,我发现一个规律。每当我只买蔬菜、水果、米面这些出自大自然馈赠的食物,最后结算的费用总是很有限的。而只要购物车里加上诸如牛奶制品、巧克力、咖啡、饼干糕点、果脯一类的零食,价格曲线就陡然上升。包括奶制品在内,所有这些食物有一个共同的特点,里面含有糖。...
评分图书标签: 人类学 社会文化史 历史 物质文化 社会学 sugar 饮食 物的消费
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times.
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评分a marvelous account of the material life and the spirit behind it.eventually some truth does lie in the surface of things itself.every move is for some certain reason yet it's tricky who justify the reason in what way.
评分好几年前就标记想看的大名鼎鼎之作。只能说不是很合吧。
评分1、4章优秀,intensification和extensification的框架对解释贵族饮食生活的扩散的启发性还行,而其背后的权力又如何作用于国家、不同阶层、殖民地之上。早年田园生活对甜味的拒斥来源于夏天水果带来的腹泻。其他章节堆砌啰嗦枯燥了些(直接念商务翻译版吧)...人类学理论课和经济人类学课的老师特捧这本书,个人以为一方面源自于它给欧洲中心带来的反思性吧,和Wolf一路的。
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Sweetness and Power 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书