Bibliograph

Fresh fruit, broken bodies, migrant farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD ; with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois

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Fresh fruit, broken bodies, migrant farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD ; with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fresh fruit, broken bodies

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

818734525

Responsibility statement

Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD ; with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois

Series statement

California series in public anthropology, 27

Sub title

migrant farmworkers in the United States

Summary

"Based on five 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 Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care"--Publisher description

Table Of Contents

List of illustrations -- Foreword / Philippe Bourgois -- Acknowledgments -- 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 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index

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