... broader systems and human experience. Mintz's concern with human experience is perhaps best exemplified in his remarkable life history of Zayas Alvarado, known as Don Taso, a worker in the cane fields of Puerto Rico. In Worker in the Cane, Mintz documents the twentieth-century changes...

... is an ethnographic research method designed to capture the richness, complexity, and dimensionality of human experience in a social and cultural context. Using the technique of portraiture, two portraits of Delight and Earle are created to document their social, demographic, and historic significance. Beans...