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Fresh fruit, broken bodies : migrant farmworkers in the United States
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Fresh fruit, broken bodies : migrant farmworkers in the United States / Seth M. Holmes ; with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois.
ISBN
9780520275133 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520275136 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520275140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520275144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520954793 (ebook)
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xxiv, 234 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2013
Series
California series in public anthropology ; 27
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: "We are field workers"
Segregation on the farm: ethnicity and citizenship hierarchies at work
"How the poor suffer": suffering the hierarchy/the hierarchy of suffering
"The doctors don't know anything": the clinical gaze in the field of migrant health
"Worth risking your life?": field notes from a desert border crossing
"Because they're lower to the ground": the naturalization of social suffering
Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond.
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