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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies By Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD


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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering, and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. Seth Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes was invited to trek with his companions clandestinely through the desert into Arizona and was jailed with them before they were deported. He lived with Indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the United States, planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, and accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals. This embodied anthropology deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which social inequities come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care. In a substantive new epilogue, Holmes and Indigenous Oaxacan scholar Jorge Ramirez-Lopez provide a current examination of the challenges facing farmworkers and the lives and resistance of the protagonists featured in the book.

About Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD

Seth M. Holmes is an anthropologist and medical doctor, Chancellor's Professor at UC Berkeley, Founder of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in medical anthropology, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, and recipient of a European Research Council Award for the project FOODCIRCUITS.

Philippe Bourgois is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (Triqui/Putleco) is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA in the American Indian Studies Center. He writes about Indigenous migration, social movements, culture, and politics.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Updated Edition

1. Introduction: Worth Risking Your Life?
2. We Are Field Workers: Embodied Anthropology of Migration
3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work
4. How the Poor Suffer:nEmbodying the Violence Continuum
5. Doctors Don't Know Anything: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health
6. Because They're Lower to the Ground: Naturalizing Social Suffering
7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond
Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table:
Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change,
coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez

Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and
Contextual Knowledge
Notes
References
Index

Additional information

NGR9780520398634
9780520398634
0520398637
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD
New
Paperback
University of California Press
2023-11-28
328
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