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Guest Lecture Seth Holmes: "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The Naturalization of Migrant Farmworker Suffering in the United States and Mexico"

10.07.2014 | 18:00 - 20:00




Guest Lecture by Seth Holmes (University of California, Berkeley)

"Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The Naturalization of Migrant Farmworker Suffering in the United States and Mexico"

Organized by the Research Area Medical Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin

Date: Thursday, July 10, 6-8 pm
Location: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin, Seminar room


Abstract of the presentation
Based on seven years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), this paper (and new book by the same name) explores how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. The paper examines structural and symbolic violence, medicalization, and the clinical gaze as they affect the experiences and perceptions of a vertical slice of indigenous Mexican migrant farmworkers, farm owners, doctors, and nurses. This work analyzes the ways in which socially structured suffering comes to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care, especially through imputations of ethnic body difference.

Prof. Holmes' biography
Dr. Seth M. Holmes is a sociocultural anthropologist and physician whose work focuses broadly on social hierarchies, health inequalities, and the ways in which such inequalities are naturalized and normalized in society and in health care. Holmes completed his PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, his MD at UC San Francisco, his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Pennsylvania and his Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program at Columbia University. An article from his research won the Rudolf Virchow Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology and his book won the Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Award and the New Millennium Book Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology. Holmes is Martin Sisters Endowed Chair Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology. He is Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UCSF and UC Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine.

Zeit & Ort

10.07.2014 | 18:00 - 20:00

Landoltweg 9-11, Raum 014 (Seminarraum)

SFB 1171 Affective Societies
BGSMCS
Berlin Southern Theory Lecture