In 1957, Eric R Wolf and Sidney W Mintz published ‘Haciendas and Plantations in Middle America and the Antilles’ in the Jamaican journal Social and Economic Studies. This article discusses the production of the Wolf and Mintz article, its analytical framework and the theoretical tensions it contains, and its subsequent influence, mainly though not exclusively on anthropological and historical scholarship about large landed properties in Latin America and the Caribbean. ‘Haciendas and Plantations’ appeared at a time when anthropologists such as Elman Service, Charles Wagley, and Marvin Harris were trying to make sense of agrarian Latin America by developing typologies of labour relations, rural populations, and forms of property. These efforts never successfully resolved the inherent tension between ethnographic or historical content, on the one hand, and Weberian ideal type definitions, on the other, although Wolf and Mintz’s article came closer to doing this than the other works in the typological genre. In part, this was because it analysed discrete dimensions of large landed estates – capital, labour, land, markets, technology, sumptuary patterns, and so on – in a manner intended to stimulate cross-regional, cross-national, and trans-historical comparisons. ‘Haciendas and Plantations’, however, saw these elements as largely determining local-level outcomes on the ground and left little analytical room for contingency or rural class struggle in driving historical processes or shaping property relations and land use. Despite the article’s scant historical content, it nonetheless continues to serve as a point of departure in early twenty-first-century agrarian studies and the analytical tensions it embodied are still significant in comparative social scientific research.

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“庄园和种植园”：一个拥有 60 年历史的分类学的历史和局限性

1957 年，Eric R Wolf 和 Sidney W Mintz 在牙买加社会和经济研究杂志上发表了“中美洲和安的列斯群岛的庄园和种植园”。本文讨论了 Wolf 和 Mintz 文章的制作、其分析框架和其中包含的理论张力，以及其随后的影响，主要但不完全是关于拉丁美洲和加勒比地区大型土地的人类学和历史研究。“庄园和种植园”出现的时候，Elman Service、Charles Wagley 和 Marvin Harris 等人类学家正试图通过发展劳资关系、农村人口和财产形式的类型来理解拉丁美洲的农业。这些努力从未成功解决人种学或历史内容之间的内在紧张关系，一方面是韦伯式的理想类型定义，另一方面，尽管 Wolf 和 Mintz 的文章比类型学类型的其他作品更接近于这样做。部分原因是它分析了大地产的离散维度——资本、劳动力、土地、市场、技术、奢侈模式等——以一种旨在刺激跨区域、跨国和跨历史的方式。比较。然而，“庄园和种植园”认为这些因素在很大程度上决定了当地的当地结果，并且几乎没有为推动历史进程或塑造财产关系和土地使用的偶然性或农村阶级斗争留下分析空间。尽管文章的历史内容很少，