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In fresh fruit broken bodies, Seth Holmes illustrated the ethnographic detail.

It is explained the
structural violence in the U.S./Mexico migrant labor system. Moreover, this book also
represented the ethnographical witness of dominating condition of Mexican migrants. In chapter
two of this book, Homels described the ethnographic method of his field work. He was
responsible for investing and explain the how body is an invaluable tool in anthropological
investigation. Ethnography is the qualitative analysis where researchers directly involved with
real life surroundings. In the spheres of usability, user-centered design, and repair design,
descriptive anthropology is used to support a designer's deeper understanding of the planning
problem – including the relevant domain, audience(s), processes, goals, and context(s) of use. It
was popularized by anthropology, but is now used across a wide range of social sciences. It is
intended that by attaining this, a styler would be able to truly comprehend the situation and, as a
result, develop a far better solution. Anthropological ethnographers often reside with a
group/society for a year or more in order to learn about them. This intensive, long-term 'live and
work' approach to descriptive ethnography has not found favor in the usability community. Part
of the answer might be related to cost, although anthropologists and utility practitioners are
interested in a variety of topics. Anthropologists use descriptive anthropology to completely
perceive the maximum amount as doable concerning a whole society. Usability practitioners’
area unit sometimes solely fascinated by learning data that may support their reasoning on a
particular style downside. Ethnography is fully based on the field work experience for an
anthropologist. In the fieldwork, an anthropologist needs to go through various process of
preparation. Economical support is one of them main things for support ethnography research.
Before the begging of field work, anthropologist need to submit grant application to seek the
financial support for the research. Economical authority is chosen by automatically, for that
reason writer can make early effort to draw attention the reader and get the credential from them.
And, writer can target the certain group of audience, which will identify the ground of authors.
At present, most of the anthropologist write for the wide variety of audiences such as student,
colleagues, and another specialist in the field. As per the regulations of U.S. federal, all the
anthropological research must review by sponsoring organization, which is involved with human
research.
The illegal border crosser, who is unmistakably on the side of the poor, was the perpetrator of the
fresh fruit shattered corpses. Class, nationality, race, employment status, space, and culture were
all violated by him. He is a professional physician who has volunteered to help the needy. During
his studies, he received assistance from the Triqui people, who enabled him to stay with them in
Oaxaca. He was grateful to the Tanaka farm laborers for finishing his research. He collected his
financial support during his work time from the Martin Sisters Endowed Chair at the University
of California, Berkeley (UCB), School of public health and many more. This financial support
helped him to accomplish his field work and, he thanked to every supporter during his research
time. Before starting his journey, he bought lot of staffs for his immigrant purpose. His research
was long time basis, which involved with everyday life of migrant’s people. He conducted
multiple survey and recorder interview to illustrate the complicated issues of immigration. In this
book, he tried to explain the threaten and injustice of migrant farmworkers in California and
Washington, who came to illegally harvest crops and vegetables. He reveled the contribution of
migrant farmworkers, who is beneficiated our society invisibly. He also described how much
affect of their body by doing this type of work. After analyzing his work, there are ethnic
variations that migrant workers share. A racism was found during his research, which was the
racism between English speaker workers and non-English migrant workers. In his research, he
also revealed the economic inequality behind the food system of United states. He exposed a
social shameful acts as an anthropologist, which was the industrial agriculture, thoughtfully
casting a human face on back-breaking work, and speaking truth to entities that control. While
reading this book the fact attract me most is that put themselves in danger by crossing the border,
some of them are go to jail, and some of them are returned to Mexico. The aim of the author was
to tell the story from the standpoint of the different Triqui migrants' families with whom he
works in different farms in different season. In a one hand, in this entire book, author described
the social development of the immigrant of Mexico and their everyday problem was discussed in
this ethnographical research. When research is included with the social development, in that time
must be economical system needed for supporting the research. The historical ethnography is a
comprehensive study that covers a brief history as well as data on topography, climate, and
habitat. This strategy has been investigated by a wide range of people and organizations,
including traditional communities, adolescent gangs, religious cults, and diverse organizations.
Economic Anthropology is the study and interpretation of all people's economic lives in their
social-cultural contexts in all countries. It investigates both economic and social-cultural order.
One of the most important benefits of ethnographic research is that it may assist in detecting and
evaluating unanticipated difficulties. An ethnographic research may be particularly effective in
identifying and documenting significant user attitudes, feelings, and perspectives due to its
informative nature. It acknowledges the ethnographer's interpretative work in developing a
cultural narrative, both in terms of shaping the study environment and in terms of evaluating and
writing up data. Future changes which are needed in economic system are:
• Fieldwork and it's blurring which is highly important in ethnography
• Conceptual analysis is also an important factor.
• Missing Depth of Ontological.
• Redefining Culture.
• Ethics.
• Attention and strictness are needed.
The majority of Holmes' research focuses on farmworkers in Washington's Skagit Valley. This
valley is a significant agricultural region that serves as a vital link in a transnational migratory
circuit that connects valley farmers to Oaxacan towns. Holmes toiled in the fields alongside
Triqui migrants in a 10-by-12-foot "cabin" at a labor camp. He recounts the issues that
farmworkers and farmers face as a result of this in-depth participant observation. This is a
valuable addition to the growing body of knowledge about migrant farmworkers in the United
States. Farm owners and management are described by Holmes as neither heartless nor naive to
the challenges faced by employees and the circumstances in labor camps, but rather as prisoners
to market forces that make it tough to compete in the increasingly global agricultural industry.
Workers and management both want to change things, but according to Holmes, the true issue is
the market, which is pushing down salaries and prices and fostering a produce race to the bottom.
After working in Washington, Holmes relocates to the Central Valley of California with several
of his migrant coworkers. He discovers an informal structure of segregation and hierarchy in the
agriculture business in both situations. White or Asian employees enjoy the easier occupations,
with more respect, more financial stability, and better health. Latinos born in the United States
and mestizo Mexicans are shown below. Mixtec Mexicans are at the bottom, followed by Triqui
Mexicans. This continuum represents the Anglo/documented and indigenous/undocumented
political, economic, and racial inequalities that drive migration over the US–Mexico border for
many.
Holmes illustrates how Triqui migrants endure systemic violence and persecution in both Mexico
and the United States, albeit in different forms. For many laborers, seeking a better life in the
United States has meant becoming a living embodiment of the harm caused by farm labor. He
demonstrates how the structural position in which patients find themselves socially, politically,
and economically, rather than a distinct individual disease, is part of their difficulties in detailed
medical cases in both the United States and Mexico. Traditional biomedicine, on the other hand,
can only recognize individual illnesses and is therefore highly reactive when it comes to
comprehending Triqui pain and physical sickness. In all situations, the most remarkable
conclusion Holmes draws is that these sorts of pain are normalized by both Triqui, who
internalize sorrow, and society as a whole.
Economic anthropology is always in conversation with economics (whether tacitly or openly).
There are, nevertheless, some significant contrasts between the two disciplines. The creation,
trade, consumption, meaning, and uses of both tangible goods and immaterial services are all
covered by economic anthropology, whereas modern economics concentrates largely on market
transactions. Furthermore, economic anthropologists refute the notion that all individual ideas,
decisions, and actions can be explained through the lens of rational, self-interested decision-
making. Anthropologists, and increasingly economists, look beyond Homo economicus'
incentives to understand how social, cultural, political, and institutional influences impact
people's daily decisions.
Economics is the study of how individuals and corporations make decisions and how those
decisions interact in the marketplace. Economists' models are based on many assumptions:
individuals know what they want, their economic decisions reflect their desires, and their desires
are shaped by their society. Economics is a normative theory in the sense that it prescribes how
individuals should behave in order to make optimal economic decisions. Anthropology, on the
other hand, is primarily a descriptive social science in which we examine what people do and
why they do it. Economic anthropologists don't always assume that individuals understand what
they want (or why they want it) or that they are free to act on their own preferences.
Anthropologists evaluate three separate phases of economic activity: production, trade, and
consumption, rather than focusing just on market transactions and human decision-making.
Nature and raw materials are transformed into tangible commodities that are useful and/or
required for humans throughout production. The distribution of these things among individuals is
referred to as exchange. Finally, consuming refers to how humans make use of these materials,
such as eating food or building houses out of bricks.

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