%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