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Chargement... They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkerspar Sarah Bronwen Horton
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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. Through captivating accounts of the daily lives of a core group of farmworkers over nearly a decade, Sarah Bronwen Horton documents in startling detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies and private interests creates exceptional and needless suffering. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While labeled again and again as 'anthropology' and self-described by the author as 'participant observation,' this is neither. It is social journalism compiled via interviews. Look, I KNOW senior Editor Rob Borofsky and I have been involved with the Public Anthropology Project; if anything, I am biased in favor of the dynamic. But as to the matter at hand, Horton does not live with the migrant workers, work in the fields beside them, employ with a contractor, nor fully immerse any of this in the culture of the Latinx workers (whether Mexican or Salvadoran). Further, her theoretical framework is a pastiche of postmodernist and sociological, allowing Bourdieu to carry the bulk of the load. These factors, coupled with the choppy writing and "oral report at a staff meeting" presentation make this fit for a legislative committee far more than an undergraduate classroom or a casual reader. ( )