Publication: Sidney Mintz: historia, sociedad y cultura en el Caribe
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2020-02-13
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Esta investigación tiene como objetivo realizar una “biografía intelectual” de la formación de Sidney Mintz (1922-2015) como antropólogo para comprender algunos cambios que sufrieron los estudios antropológicos –en especial en los Estados Unidos- en el período posterior al fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Al tiempo, dicho estudio permite captar los hilos que dirigieron sus trabajos durante buena parte de su trayectoria académica. Para ello, se han seguido las propuestas del movimiento de recuperación de la perspectiva biográfica que se ha difundido en las últimas décadas dentro de las Ciencias Sociales. Mintz fue un destacado representante de una generación significativa de la Antropología estadounidense que se constituyó durante aquellos años en un marco intelectual y político caracterizado por importantes transformaciones frente al período anterior a la contienda. Al tiempo, la forma en la que resolvió los dilemas centrales de sus investigaciones explica las razones por las que se convirtió en un pionero del “descubrimiento” del Caribe como centro del desarrollo del sistema capitalista moderno. Su obra empujó a mirar el mundo desde estas islas, mostrando cómo, desde una periferia descubierta muy tarde como objeto de análisis para las Ciencias Sociales, se podía contribuir a responder a cuestiones centrales acerca de la formación de la modernidad...
The main purpose of this research is to carry out an "intellectual biography" of Sidney Mintz‟s (1922-2015) training as an anthropologist in order to understand some of the changes that anthropological studies underwent in the period following the end of World War II, especially in the United States. At the same time, this inquiry helps us to gain a better insight into the main lines of his work during a significant part of his academic life. To this end, the proposals of the new biographical perspective within the Social Sciences that have developed over recent decades have been implemented. Mintz was an outstanding representative of a significant generation of the North American Anthropology formed during those years in an intellectual and political context characterized by important transformations in comparison with the previous period. Moreover, the way in which he handled the central dilemmas of his research explains why he became a pioneer of the "discovery" of the Caribbean as the center of the modern capitalist system development. His contribution drove to look at the world from these islands, showing how, from a periphery discovered belatedly as a Social Science research subject, several key issues about the formation of modernity could be answered...
The main purpose of this research is to carry out an "intellectual biography" of Sidney Mintz‟s (1922-2015) training as an anthropologist in order to understand some of the changes that anthropological studies underwent in the period following the end of World War II, especially in the United States. At the same time, this inquiry helps us to gain a better insight into the main lines of his work during a significant part of his academic life. To this end, the proposals of the new biographical perspective within the Social Sciences that have developed over recent decades have been implemented. Mintz was an outstanding representative of a significant generation of the North American Anthropology formed during those years in an intellectual and political context characterized by important transformations in comparison with the previous period. Moreover, the way in which he handled the central dilemmas of his research explains why he became a pioneer of the "discovery" of the Caribbean as the center of the modern capitalist system development. His contribution drove to look at the world from these islands, showing how, from a periphery discovered belatedly as a Social Science research subject, several key issues about the formation of modernity could be answered...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, leída el 14/11/2019