图书标签: 人类学 社会文化史 历史 物质文化 社会学 sugar 饮食 物的消费
发表于2025-04-12
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A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times.
Sidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, whose faculty he joined after teaching for two decades at Yale. He is the author of Worker in the Cane, Caribbean Transformations, and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past, co-author of The People of Puerto Rico, and editor of Slavery, Colonialism and Racism.
祖师爷的书,和Eric Wolf的一样,没有想象的好。
评分从historiography的角度来说是本好书,集好几家方法于一体,随处可见marx, braudel。就是读起来琐碎:因为脑洞开得大、联系建得远,他得引入大篇幅解释这些connection,这一部分挺枯燥的。
评分Enjoyable reading! a crossover book for academia and trade.
评分边看边狂吃甜食,结果看着看着就觉得恶心了。。。
评分嘛 又是Penguin的书
-象征价值的穷尽,经济实用功能上升,糖经历了意义被掏空,由奢侈品转为消费品的历程 -女性看上去更喜欢甜食,也许是由于昂贵的蛋白质长期以来为成年男性所独有,妻子和孩子食用糖的比例更大,而逐渐形成的文化因素。
评分在物质生活日益富足的当下,“管不住嘴,迈不开腿”,促使人类体重不断攀升,高血压、糖尿病隐患浮现。即便如此,人类在甜食面前却欲罢不能,这种根深蒂固的嗜甜癖,既有基因的始作俑者,亦有模因的推波助澜。 基因是构建身体的指令。经历过漫长的采集生活和食物短缺的人类,体...
评分逛超市时,我发现一个规律。每当我只买蔬菜、水果、米面这些出自大自然馈赠的食物,最后结算的费用总是很有限的。而只要购物车里加上诸如牛奶制品、巧克力、咖啡、饼干糕点、果脯一类的零食,价格曲线就陡然上升。包括奶制品在内,所有这些食物有一个共同的特点,里面含有糖。...
评分(一) 去年夏天,苗师傅在《三联生活周刊》专栏上写了一篇《饥饿间奏曲》,围绕食物与社会化这个主题,推荐了三本书,其中一本就是《甜与权力》。 苗师傅在介绍这本书时,提到了一个现象,几百年前,糖在英国还是奢侈品,只有国王和贵族才能享用,而到了20世纪,糖已经成为...
评分此书,从“糖”这“第一种资本主义产品”介入,考察资本主义生产方式和文化权力交织在一起的社会历史变迁。糖由此不再仅仅是一种食物,而是一种介质,折射出资本主义文化的形象。糖的历史有许多种写法,本书是人类学家的写法,与经济史学家穆素洁《中国:糖与社会——农民、...
Sweetness and Power pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025