Description
| Product ID: | 9780520398634 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | California Series in Public Anthropology |
| Title: | Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies |
| Subtitle: | Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue |
| Authors: | Author: Seth M., PhD, MD Holmes |
| Page Count: | 328 |
| Subjects: | Migration, immigration and emigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Labour / income economics, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Labour economics, Agriculture & related industries, USA, Mexico |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating With a new preface and a new epilogue co-written with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez, this updated edition of 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 new epilogue, Holmes and Indigenous Oaxacan scholar Jorge Ramirez-Lopez provide a substantive update about the protagonists in the book, focusing on the ways in which they have been involved individually and collectively in movements for Indigenous immigrant rights, farmworker rights, and the right to health over the last decade. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-11-28 |
