%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Not Twenty Feet Away¡¯: The Caribbean ¨C and Race ¨C in Sidney W Mintz¡¯s Puerto Rican Fieldwork
%A Jorge L Giovannetti
%J Critique of Anthropology
%@ 1460-3721
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0308275X18806570
%X Focusing in the early years of Sidney W Mintz¡¯s career and his ¡®anthropological record¡¯, this essay examines aspects of his legacy to the field of Caribbean studies. Using materials from Mintz¡¯s fieldwork in Puerto Rico during the 1940s and 1950s, the author discusses experiences that may have influenced Mintz¡¯s ideas and future scholarship in two specific areas. First, the localized fieldwork in the island¡¯s southern town of Jauca (Santa Isabel), specifically on the plantation, is seen as a launching pad for scale-up thinking into large-scale analysis: from the Caribbean to hemispheric and Atlantic connections. Second, exposure to, and analysis of, complex issues of race during Mintz¡¯s Puerto Rican fieldwork suggest the initial opening to future interventions he made on this topic
%K Sidney W Mintz
%K Puerto Rico
%K Caribbean studies
%K plantation
%K race
%K fieldwork
%K anthropology
%K anthropological record
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308275X18806570