Sidney Mintz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sidney Mintz

American anthropologist

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: Dover, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 26-Dec-2015

Profession: university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sidney Wilfred Mintz (November 16, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food.
Mintz received his PhD at Columbia University in 1951 and conducted his primary fieldwork among sugar-cane workers in Puerto Rico.
Later expanding his ethnographic research to Haiti and Jamaica, he produced historical and ethnographic studies of slavery and global capitalism, cultural hybridity, Caribbean peasants, and the political economy of food commodities.
He taught for two decades at Yale University before helping to found the Anthropology Department at Johns Hopkins University, where he remained for the duration of his career.
Mintz's history of sugar, Sweetness and Power, is considered one of the most influential publications in cultural anthropology and food studies.