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Anthropology is the study of human societies, culture and their development, which take a

broad approach to understand the many different aspects of human experience. In one word,
it is the study of what makes us human. Mainly, Anthropologist considered the past, through
archaelogy, to notice the how human survive at 10 decades ago. It is provided the knowledge
of every aspect of human existence and provide the answer to our questions about our past,
present and future, also it revels our root. I found an interesting book from the professor
given book list, “Fresh Fruit Broken bodies migrant frameworks in the United States”. The
writer’s name of this book was SETH M. HOLMES. He was the physician and
anthropologist. This book is published by University of California press. Overall, this book
served as an “ethnographic witness” to how recessed impact on the global economy of
Mexican Immigrant. This book is result of the 5 years of ethnographic research among the
three regions, when he lived in mountain of Oaxaca with Triqui indigenous families. He also
planted corn, and Picked strawberries alongside Triqui migrants in the United States. For his
professional reason, he lived in US and Mexico both cities, when he was a medical
anthropologist and physician. He was concerned about health care delivery.

Author described his 18-month journey with the three key people, which is an indigenous
group of people that are based in Triqui, Oaxaca, Mexico. In this 18 month, he utilized his
notes for listing the possible paths for migrant farmworkers. This book gave the example
about the everyday problem of Mexican migrant, and explained about indigenous people in
this synchronous food system to show the way how market forces, antiimmigrant sentiment,
and racism undermine health and healthcare. He tried to put cheap food on Americans table.
He lived in the mountain of Oaxaca and labor camps in the U.S with indigenous people,
where he cultivated corn, picked strawberries and helped to sick workers to clinics and
hospitals. He explained about migrant farmworkers in the United States. The concept of this
book was collected from the world scholarship to enrich the understanding of people’s lives,
while its vivid details and empathetic portrait of the reality of people’s lives enrich
scholarship. Holmes tried to express his experiences about informant life histories, clinical
case studies, and explained his observation and conversation with additional social workers
on the farms and in the clinic, which he visited. As a medical anthropologist, Holmes
engaged with health and migration issues. `

The main points of this book are about to global market, migration and racism undermine
farmworker health. This book concerned about not only cultural, medical anthropologists,
labor, agriculture, physicians and public health professionals, but also for all the community
of people, who gave the fresh fruit in a cheap range. Contemporary food system is
responsible for human sufferings. He did choose the indigenous Mexican community for the
examinee and observe their participant, who used to harvest crops in Washington and
California. His work constantly supported the conversations in food studies, ecocriticism, and
environmental justice, he did not include in this field previously. In his study, Triqui people
was the newest immigrant group between Mexico and United states. As per author view,
California and Washington farmer was the most confusion about so called healthy food. He
found the injustice into the food system. During his graduation research, he arranged a berry
firm from third generation Japanese American family in Skagti. Author expressed his concern
about social structural violence in the United States and Mexico migrant labor system.
This book is applicable for both introductory and advanced scholars of artistic and medical
anthropology; ethnical studies; and studies in immigration, labor, food, and husbandry. It's a
gripping illustration of “public anthropology,” and is thus written in accessible prose for
compendiums among the general public interested in the health and well- being of settlers
who pick fresh yield while frequently not being suitable to go to feed themselves. It can
likewise serve as a companion for croakers seeking to practice emancipation drug-that is,
treating social causes in addition to natural causes through engagement with the poor-and
public health professionals hoping to produce a critical public health for the betterment of all.
This precious piece of education offers sapience for immigration and food policy. Author
argued with Amricans for exchanging the public and language migration. For this reason, the
distinction between profitable “emigrants” and political “deportees” does not hold for the
Triquis, and it’s prejudicial to call undocumented berry selectors “unskilled migratory
workers,” while calling fat white emigrant workers “transnational businesspeople.” As a
professional manner of health professionals must learn to see the political, profitable, and
social complaint. Policy change was discussed in this book with arguing with some scholars.
They should join juggernauts to fight for universal healthcare, legal status for migratory
workers, and profitable programs that support small businesses and original growers, not
massive international pots. He admitted that U.S. public policy and racial hierarchies are
resistant to change.

In conclusion, this book gave the special focus on Triqui workers, which is giving the clear
idea to the readers to understand the circumstances of new immigrants. In addition, the book
would have been strengthened by considering the relationship between today’s working
conditions and past farm labor organizing attempts, contextualizing the ability of new
workers to protest their conditions. This book gave the brief understanding to the reader
about how injustice produced in the United States, how a single person overcome from those
injustice, that is illustrated.

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