Worker in the Cane

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Sidney W. Mintz

页数:320

出版时间:1974-11-17

价格:USD 16.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393007312

图书标签:民族志文化人类学经验研究敏兹思想史以外的历史lifehistoryethnography

This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them. Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his family. He tells of his radical political beliefs and union activity during the Depression and describes his hardships when he was blacklisted because of his outspoken convictions. Embittered by his continuing poverty and by a serious illness, he undergoes a dramatic cure and becomes converted to a Protestant revivalist sect. In the concluding chapters the author interprets Don Taso's experience in the light of the changing patterns of life in rural Puerto Rico.

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I never thought ethnography can be about a single person, but Mintz has convinced me of that.

I never thought ethnography can be about a single person, but Mintz has convinced me of that.

I never thought ethnography can be about a single person, but Mintz has convinced me of that.