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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes’s material is visceral and powerful. He trekked with his companions illegally 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 U.S., 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 inequalities and suffering come to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care.
All of the book award money and royalties from the sales of this book have been donated to farm worker unions, farm worker organizations and farm worker projects in consultation with farm workers who appear in the book.
- Sales Rank: #10360 in Books
- Published on: 2013-06-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .60" w x 6.00" l, .79 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Review
"By giving voice to silenced Mexican migrant laborers, Dr. Holmes exposes the links among suffering, the inequalities related to the structural violence of global trade which compel migration, and the symbolic violence of stereotypes and prejudices that normalize racism."--Marilyn Gates"New York Journal of Books" (06/19/2013)
"The reader is left with a deep understanding of how injustice in the United States is produced and the strength of the individuals that persevere through it."--Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern"Antipode" (07/01/2013)
"The insights gleaned by [Holmes's] participation-observation are priceless."--Michelle A. Gonzalez"National Catholic Reporter" (09/01/2013)
"A compelling and frightening account of the lives of [Mexican migrant] workers. . . . [Holmes's] tales of crossing the border, doing backbreaking work in the fields, and exploring relationships with these dislocated and largely invisible workers is well worth a read."--Leah Douglas"Serious Eats" (10/02/2013)
"Holmes brings an unusual expertise to his writing about migrant Mexican farmworkers. . . .[He] goes far beyond mere observation."--Charles Ealy"Austin American Statesman" (09/21/2013)"
""Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies" is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in food and the food system. . . .To say that the book provides a vivid look at farm labor is an understatement."--Peter Benson"Somatosphere" (10/16/2013)"
"A timely, eloquent, and analytically rigourous examination . . . an excellent resource."--MDICLHUMANITIES"Centre for Medical Humanities" (12/09/2015)
"A provocative, important new book. . . . Part heart-pounding adventure tale, part deep ethnographic study, part urgent plea for reform."--Marke B."Bay Guardian" (12/17/2013)
From the Inside Flap
"In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, Seth Holmes offers up an important and captivating new ethnography, linking the structural violence inherent in the migrant labor system in the United States to the social processes by which it becomes normalized. Drawing on five years of fieldwork among the Triqui people from Oaxaca, Mexico, Holmes investigates local understandings of suffering and illness, casting into relief stereotypes and prejudices that he ties to the transnational labor that puts cheap food on American tables. Throughout this compelling volume, Holmes considers ways of engaging migrant farm workers and allies that might help disrupt exploitation that reaches across national boundaries and can too often be hidden away. This book is a gripping read not only for cultural and medical anthropologists, immigration and ethnic studies students, students of labor and agriculture, physicians and public health professionals, but also anyone interested in the lives and well-being of the people providing them cheap, fresh fruit."—Paul Farmer, Co-founder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
“Dramatically portrays the harsh physical and emotional conditions under which farm workers labor. As they complete their brutal work, they suffer long-term disabilities in their senior years. This can be avoided with reasonable and decent working conditions. Let us remember them as we eat our daily meals.”—Dolores Huerta
"This book takes concepts from the world of scholarship to enrich the understanding of people's lives; and the vivid detail, and empathetic portrait of the reality of people's lives enrich scholarship. The book leaves the reader in no doubt that economic arrangements, social hierarchies, discrimination, poor living and working conditions have profound effects on the health of marginalized people. It is all done with the touch of a gifted writer. The reader lives the detail and is much moved."—Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity
"Provides a unique understanding of the political economy of migrant labor and of its human cost."—Didier Fassin is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the author of Humanitarian Reason.
"Here in the U.S., we both utterly rely on immigrants from the South to feed us, and erect walls and employ militias to keep them out. In this groundbreaking new book, Holmes goes underground to explore what this bizarre duality means for the people who live it. A brilliant combination of academic rigor and journalistic daring."—Tom Philpott, Food and Agriculture Correspondent, Mother Jones Magazine
“Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a powerful exposé of the social and political realities that mark the bodies and limit the life prospects of Mexican migrant farmworkers in the world’s richest economy. An absorbing read and a resolute call for just labor relations and health equity as key to a common and sustainable human development.”— João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
“Holmes' book is a lyrical ethnographic rendition of Robert Chailloux's "Still Life with Strawberries," revealing the back stage, back-breaking work of indigenous Mexican pickers trapped in patron-client relationship to Japanese-American farm owners who are themselves trapped in price wars with global competitors to produce the beautiful abundance that we take for granted."—Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of Death without Weeping
“A tour du force ethnography. Holmes gives us the rare combination of medical, anthropological, and humanitarian gazes into the lives of Oaxacan migrant farmworkers in the United States. Their agricultural field work and his anthropological fieldwork intersect to produce a book full of insights into the pathos, inequalities, frustrations, and dreams punctuating the farmworkers’ daily lives. Through Holmes' vivid prose, and the words of the workers themselves, we feel with the workers as they strain their bodies picking fruit and pruning vines, we sense their fear as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border, we understand their frustrations as they are chased and detained by immigration authorities, and cheer at their perseverance when faced with bureaucrats and medical personnel who treat them as if they are to blame for their own impoverished condition. A must read for anyone interested in the often invisible lives and suffering of those whose labor provides for our very sustenance.”—Leo R. Chavez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
“In his first book, anthropologist and doctor Seth M. Holmes gives us an intimate look into the lives of migrant farmworkers. Through his exhaustive research, Holmes reveals the struggles of the millions who work in our fields, every year, to put food on our tables. In deliberations about immigration and farm policy, these are the stories that should be at the center. Holmes' helps us put them there.”
Anna Lappé, author Diet for a Hot Planet and founder, Real Food Media Project
“Like the reporting of Edward R. Murrow and the labors of Cesar Chavez, Seth Holmes’ work on these modern-day migrants reminds us of the human beings who produce the greatest bounty of food the world has ever seen. They take jobs other American workers won’t take for pay other American workers won’t accept and under conditions other American workers won’t tolerate. Yet except for the minority of farm workers protected by United Farm Workers’ contracts, these workers too often don’t earn enough to adequately feed themselves. Seth Holmes’ writing fuels the UFW’s ongoing organizing among farm workers and admonishes the American people that our work remains unfinished.”—Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America
About the Author
Seth M. Holmes is an anthropologist and physician. He received his PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, and his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. He is Martin Sisters Endowed Chair Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Philippe Bourgois is Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family & Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and author, among other books of In Search of Respect (Cambridge, 2000) and Righteous Dopefiend (UC Press, 2010).
Most helpful customer reviews
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing.
By AnthroNerd
I've not even finished reading this book yet, and I've already decided that this is one of the most important ethnographies ever written. It is theoretically rich, yet written in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. This ethnography has the potential to transform the way people think about immigration, forcing them to examine the global system that allows undocumented workers to be treated as subhuman.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Great read for anthropology students
By Alayna
This book was a requirement of my Anthropology class. Prior to reading, I had a built in opinion on immigration in the United States. These ideas were influenced by my family members who have standard republican views on the matter. I always looked at Mexican immigrants as how they are stereotyped in our society and never considered looking into their motives for coming into our country. While reading this book, I was shocked by how much discrimination and dehumanization the immigrants face coming into our country. This book shifted my views on immigration and has allowed me to become more open minded about the situation.
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies mainly discusses the mistreatment that the indigenous Mexican group known as the Triquis face. Throughout Seth's experience, we see why the Triquis migrate to America (what the process consists of, dangers faced when doing so, how hard it is to actually make it to America, etc.), how they are treated in America, their living conditions, and what their work consists of. Seth's role of interpretive labor truly allows us to see inside their lives and witness the dehumanization that they deal with on a regular basis.
In chapter one, we learn about Seth's first attempt of migrating with a Triqui group into the United States. We get the gist of the whole process, learn what a coyote is, the risks they are facing, etc. When they are captured by the Border Patrol, we are introduced to the first form of mistreatment the migrants face. Seth is held in a separate jail cell with separate charges, and from how he is treated, I can't even imagine how much worse it was for the Triqui's.
Chapter two discusses what Seth does after the previous incident. We are introduced to the first form of things such as habitus, hegemony, and discrimination that takes place in our country. We also start learn about importance of Mexican immigrants and the ethnography's subjects.
The third chapter begins to get into the typical work that the indigenous Mexicans perform. We learn about every position on the Tanaka farm, and are introduced to important workers amongst the farm. The hierarchy of the farm is established. We see how the work is broken down, who is qualified to perform certain jobs, etc. This shows us the true inequalities that are established at this farm and how the Mexican migrants are inferior to everyone else. Living conditions of the migrants are described as well. We also see how the stereotypes that these people get play in and where they stem from. We learn what the true reasons for these stereotypes are.
Chapters four and five get into the structural and symbolic violence faced by the migrants, as well as the physical pain they suffer from grueling labor. We learn how they are mistreated when getting help for their health issues and how they are unsuccessful at getting substantial compensation for these injuries. This chapter is very shocking from the injuries they are subjected to, to the unprofessional attitudes the doctors have toward them. Chapter six goes into more depth about the symbolic violence the hierarchies described throughout the book commit. Chapter seven then provides a conclusion of Seth's fieldwork and wraps everything together.
Although this book was excellently put together and kept me interested in reading, there were some points that I did not like so much. I felt that a lot of aspects were repetitive throughout the book, where they could have been left to a specific chapter. The order in which Seth explains his events also jumped around a bit throughout the book, which for me was kind of hard to keep up with.
Overall, I would say this book is very worth reading. It helped me become more open minded with the Mexican immigration issue in our country. Although I still have some disagreements with Seth Holmes' views on the matter, I know where he is coming from and I am able to put myself in his position. I would recommend this book for any anthropology student who is looking for real life examples when it comes to hegemony, biopower, structural/symbolic violence, and habitus.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
insightful and challenging analysis
By nolabookworm
Holmes' moving work reveals the "bad faith" American consumerism that criminalizes migrant laborers even as it depends on them for access to the dinner table. While his theoretical framework is at times awkward, his analysis of the social plight of his Triqui companions more than compensates for this deficiency. The larger issues of neoliberal market inequalities may at times seem a little daunting for non-academic readers, but Holmes' narrative consistently demonstrates that our demand for cheap products has devastating global consequences. Definitely worth a close read.
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