Sweetness and Power - Sidney W. Mintz Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Food, Sociality, and Sugar
2. Production
3. Consumption
4. Power
5. Eating and Being
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Sidney W. Mintz was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught anthropology. His academic specialization focused on the anthropology of food, with a particular focus on the consumption and commodification of sugar. His works include Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom- Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past; The World of Soy; and Sweetness and Power- The Place of Sugar in Modern History. He died in 2015.
"Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single
commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of
social relationships and human behavior." -The New York Review of
Books
"Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a
real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
"A fine book. It not only tells a fascinating story, it is also
something of an antidote to the static quality of much
anthropological writing." -Jack Goody, The New York Times Book
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