地方与全球——文思理教授(Sidney Wilfred Mintz)与人类学

The Local and the Global: Sidney W.Mintz and Anthropology

本文意图全面论述文思理教授对人类学发展的贡献,同时讨论其人类学研究的特点,即,扎实的田野研究、地方与全球的视野,并将人类学研究置于地方史和全球资本主义进程的历史脉络中。文思理教授在波多黎各、牙买加和海地从事田野工作,对加勒比海研究作出了巨大贡献。文思理教授强调人类学需关注历史,同时推动田野中的口述历史研究。1985年,《甜与权力》出版之后,文思理教授先后出版多篇饮食人类学专论,成就显赫,成为该领域公认的权威学者。文思理教授长寿知足,诲人不倦,并享受饮食以及与知交的相处,尽显大师风范。斯人已逝,谨撰此文,以示怀念。

This paper describes Sidney Mintz as an anthropologist and his contribution to anthropology. The paper points out the main characteristics of his anthropological study, namely good ethnography, studying the local in global context, and locating anthropology in the contexts of local history and global capitalism. Prof. Mintz did his anthropological fieldwork in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Haiti and he contributed significantly to Caribbean studies. His anthropology emphasized the importance of history as well as doing oral history. After the publication of his book Sweetness and Power in 1985, he became known as an anthropologist of food, an area which he had contributed significantly since then until his death in December 2015. Throughout his long life, he had enjoyed food and good company and even in his old age, he found giving a lecture was still fun.