ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sidney Mintz, Eric Wolf, Applied Anthropology
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At the same time, the regional perspective of leach was not quite that different from another development. Julian steward, previously addressed as a neo-evolutionist, joined the columbia. University faculty in 1946 where he collaborated with a number of graduate students including eric wolf and sidney mintz. Steward, mintz, wolf, and others designed and carried out a team research project in puerto rico, described in the volume the citizens of puerto. The team is investigating communities in different parts of puerto rico. The field sites were selected to observe significant events and changes in the island"s past, such as the sugar plantation. The strategy has illuminated economics, politics and history. Throughout their careers, wolf and mintz maintained their interest in literature. Wolf wrote the new classic europe and the people without history (1982) that portrayed local people, such as indigenous americans, in the sense of world- system incidents such as north america"s fur trade.
