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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holmes, Seth M., 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.