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Title: Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History by Sidney W. Mintz ISBN: 0-393-00731-6 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Hats off to Sidney W. Mintz
Comment: Sidney W. Mintz humanizes the 'cane worker' in this vibrant ethnography in which he combines knowledge gained during a formal research period ('48 - '49) with the autobiography of his key informant, Taso (Anastacio {Eustaquio} Zayas Alvarado).
The critical core of this ethnography, the autobiography, was an afterthought. Shortly after the conclusion of his field work with Mintz, Taso joined the Pentacostal Church. Mintz was astonished and perplexed by Taso's decision since he thought he knew Taso and viewed him as a practical, intelligent man not vulnerable to seemingly irrational and spontaneous life choices.
Mintz returned to P.R. in 1953 to unearth the reasoning underlying the conversion and in the course of his search (lucky for us) he assembled Taso's autobiography. Taso's life story is interwoven with Mintz's personal observations of Taso, interviews with Taso's wife, Elí (Elisabeth Villaronga Colón de Zayas) and Mintz's commentaries based on information gathered during the '48 -'49 research period. The combination of autobiography and ethnography brings Taso, his family and the neighboring Juaqueños to life. These are warm bodied human beings we can care about, not the deadwood of the traditional ethnography.
May 22, 2000
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Title: AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, No 33) by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520083431 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Maid to Order in Hong Kong: An Ethnography of Filipina Workers by Nicole Constable ISBN: 0801483824 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side (Institutional Structures of Feeling) by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff, Jagna Wojcicka Sharff ISBN: 081332937X Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs by Cathy A. Small ISBN: 0801484367 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Symbol, Myth, & Ritual) by Victor Witter Turner ISBN: 0801491517 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1975 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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