Reading: Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

For each week's readings, you should complete the Ethnography Response Form and submit it along with a two-page excerpt from your fieldnotes for that week. While the form asks you general questions about an author's theoretical framework and methodology, these study guide questions are intended to help you focus your reading on the specific issues and methods used by the author and to consider both critically. These study guide questions will usually form the basis for our in-class discussions.

1. How does Holmes use the concepts of structural violence and symbolic violence? How do they relate to each other? Provide specific examples from Holmes's book.

2. What is embodied anthropology? What specific insights does it offer about migration?

3. What factors cause embodied suffering among migrant farmworkers? Why do physicians blame workers as individuals for their physical suffering?

4. What is the structure of life on the farm? How are people characterized according to job, ethnicity, gender, age, language, education, citizenship status, or other factors?

5. What dynamics have fueled Triqui migration to the US? What might Holmes say is important for us to understand if we wish to discuss contemporary approaches to immigration in the US, particularly with respect to law, labor, health, and trade?