23 Facts About Sidney Mintz

Sidney Wilfred Mintz was an American anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food.

Sidney Mintz 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.

Sidney Mintz was born in Dover, New Jersey, to Fanny and Soloman Sidney Mintz.

Sidney Mintz's father was a New York tradesman, and his mother was a garment-trade organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World.

Sidney Mintz had a long academic career at Yale University before helping to found the Anthropology Department at Johns Hopkins University.

Sidney Mintz has been a visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the College de France and elsewhere.

Sidney Mintz's work has been the subject of several studies.

Sidney Mintz was honored by the establishment of the annual Sidney W Mintz Lecture in 1992.

Sidney Mintz was a member of the American Ethnological Society and was President of that body from 1968 to 1969, a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Sidney Mintz taught as a lecturer at City College, New York City, in 1950, at Columbia University, New York City, in 1951, and at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut between 1951 and 1974.

At Yale, Sidney Mintz started as an instructor, but was Professor of Anthropology from 1963 to 1974.

Sidney Mintz served as Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland since 1974.

Sidney Mintz died on December 26,2015, at the age of 93, following severe head trauma resulting from a fall.

Sidney Mintz received the Franz Boas Award at the 2012 American Anthropological Association.

Sidney Mintz's ethnography centered on how these responses are manifested in the lives of Caribbean people.

For Sidney Mintz, history did not erode differences to create homogeneity among regions, even while a capitalist world-system was emerging.

Sidney Mintz reasoned that, because slavery in the Caribbean was implicated in capitalism, slavery there was unlike Old World slavery; but that because slave status meant unfree labor, Caribbean slavery was not a fully capitalistic labor-form for the extraction of surplus value.

Sidney Mintz carried out his first fieldwork in the Caribbean in 1948 as part of Julian Steward's application of anthropological methods to the study of a complex society.

Sidney Mintz has always taken a historical approach and used historical materials in studying Caribbean cultures.

Sidney Mintz argued that Caribbean peasantries emerged alongside of and after industrialization, probably like nowhere else in the world.

Sidney Mintz was interested in gender relations and the domestic economy, and especially in women's roles in marketing.

Anxious to illustrate complexity and diversity within the Caribbean, as well as the commonalities bridging cultural, linguistic, and political frontiers, Sidney Mintz argued in The Caribbean as a Socio-Cultural Area that.

Sidney Mintz has compared slavery and forced labor across islands, time and colonial structures, as in Jamaica and Puerto Rico ; and addressed the question of differing colonial systems engendering differing degrees of cruelty, exploitation, and racism.