Seth M. Holmes
- Anthropologist
- Author of "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies"
- PHD from Berkeley
- Director of Public Health @ Berkeley
- Physician
On The Panel
- Kitty Calavita (UC Irvine)
- Maria Echaveste (Stanford, Berkeley)
How The Book Came To Be
- From Seth's own curiosity & interest
- wanted to know about relationship between U.S & Mexico
- The way we get our food and where it comes from
- Indigenous people
The Experience (brief)
- Seth worked picking berries and strawberries twice a week
- other days interviewed nurses/doctors about campesino's health
- lived w/ Triqui ppl (19 of them) in a small shack apartment
- he lived in the closet
- lives in oaxaca for a while
- crossed the desert border and was detained and fined by border patrol
- took 7 yrs to write the book
- visits Triqui ppl almost every yr.
Tonaca Farm
- Jap/American workers
- Aglo American owners?
- $7.16/hr in Washington ST.
3 Types Of Labor Camps
- 50 ppl
- no insolation
- derogative terms like "perro"(dog), "Indio estupido" (stupid indian/indigenous), "burro" (donkey), and "Oaxaca"(from Oaxacan descent) are used by the owners to call or describe their employees.
- no heating ??
2. ??
3. 250 ppl
- no insolation
- pickers do not take breaks for fear that they might not make the weight of fruit they need to pick
- the more fruit the more money
Racism
- Mizteco ppl earn more money than Triqui ppl
- Triqui ppl are categorized by others as the "most dumb indigenous"
Migrant Health
- Clinics are usually unfunded
- most migrants do not have health insurance
- by age 30, 40s and 50s the campesino is worn-out b/c of harsh labor
Book recommendation
- The Birth Of The Clinic
- look up symbolic violence
Maria Echaveste:
- Why is is that ppl believe that others are more well suited to pick strawberries? Why categorize people?
- Agriculture has always been an exploited industry
Recommended Documentary
- "Harvest Of Shame"
