Fresh fruit, broken bodies migrant farmworkers in the United States /
"This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. Based on 5 years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farme...
| Main Author: | Holmes, Seth M., 1975- |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxiv, 234 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Series: |
California series in public anthropology ;
27. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Worth risking your life?"
- "We are field workers": embodied anthropology of migration
- Segregation on the farm: ethnic hierarchies at work
- "How the poor suffer": embodying the violence continuum
- "Doctors don't know anything": the clinical gaze in the field of migrant health
- "Because they're lower to the ground": naturalizing social suffering
- Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond
- Appendix: On ethnographic writing and contextual knowledge.