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2024-05-08
Sweetness and Power 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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 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 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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评分比起全球史,这本书主要解决的问题还是the rise of capitalism吧,依然是在逻辑上多有不顺的消费社会的形成问题/人类学方法很有意思,例如各种讲究用途、实践之类/后面英文版实在读不下去就翻中文版了????
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.
评分重讀之後的評價差了很多。必須承認在物質文化研究上這本書有極大的方法論價值,至少作為範本把物引入了人類學的主體領域。然而作為單一研究,野心太大,社會史的細節材料梳失頗多,行文中經常提出一兩個很重要的見解卻沒有論據作證。工人階級這樣被關注的對象仍然是被“噤聲”和“代言”的。
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Sweetness and Power 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书