Anthropology is the study of human communities, culture, and evolution from a wide

perspective in order to comprehend the numerous facets of human experience. In one word, it
is the study of what makes us human. Mainly, Anthropologist considered the past, through
archaeology, 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.
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.

Author argued with Americans 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.

Dr. Seth Holmes, a physician and anthropologist, reveals how the global market, migration,
and racism harm farmworker health in Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. He explains how these
macro influences manifest themselves in the difficult working and living conditions people
face. Those workers have put their health on the line for ours, yet they are virtually unseen to
the world's richest economy's consumers.

Dr. Holmes fills this need with an engrossing ethnography of the life, labor, and suffering of
illegal Triqui Indian farmworkers in Oaxaca, Mexico. In the anthropological tradition of
participant-observation, he traveled the migrant circuit. He interviewed with various
profession people, and the output was impressive. He also spoke with clinic staffers, public
health experts, farm workers, US border agents, and local-residents. The result is a
sympathetic "rich description" that serves as both a compelling read and a plea for more
humane, healthy, and dignified living and working conditions for migrant workers.

Dr. Holmes offers a terribly honest account of his experience crossing the US border with
illegals in the first chapter, which is particularly captivating. On an ancient bus heading north
from Oaxaca, sweaty dread is obvious among the migrants. We learn the ropes in the bleak
staging town of Altar, including how to choose a coyote (crossing guide), how to deter rattle
snakes by rubbing garlic cloves on their shoes, how to protect themselves from the scorching
desert sun by wearing dark clothing, how to ration water, and how to hide money in little jars
of mayonnaise. Then there's the wild run across the border in the dark, over and under wires
and fences, every shadow perhaps concealing an enemy, hiding from helicopters under
bushes. Triqui and Mixtec contract workers are the lowest of the low in the agricultural labor
hierarchy in the United States, below "regular" (Spanish-speaking) Mexicans. The Triqui are
referred to as unclean, stupid, burros, and perros by their supervisors, which is a kind of
racism (dogs). Because most Triqui only know a few words of English and barely speak
Spanish, cultural misunderstandings are common. Working circumstances and accompanying
injuries are distorted by cultural and experiential divides. Strawberry picking is a highly
skilled task performed with both hands while kneeling or squatting and exposed to pesticide
residues, therefore the term "unskilled labor" is a complete misnomer.

In order to meet the required minimum, experienced personnel select at breakneck speed. The
Triqui, according to the farm owner, do not "desire" to take lunch breaks. However, many
people don't drink or eat anything before going to work since they don't have time to use the
portable toilets on the job. Worker injuries are surrounded by a similar lack of empathy.
Some sources claim that indigenous Oaxacans have the ideal body for berry picking "because
they're lower to the ground," or that they experience less discomfort than other. Dr. Holmes,
on the other hand, testifies to his informants' persistent pain as well as other long-term health
consequences.

Because the prevalent biobehavioral medical model relies on observable symptoms rather
than context, migrant health clinics do little to alleviate misery. Frequently, practitioners
overlook the differences in migratory living, traditional beliefs, and the unique needs of farm
work, and much is lost in translation, leading to patients being blamed for their own illnesses.
The most heinous "treatments" include referring a person suffering from severe headaches as
a result of racist slurs and discriminatory workplace treatment to substance abuse therapy.

Another informant has been diagnosed with an old boxing injury as a result of intense field
labor and abuse by the Mexican military! A laborer who was paralyzed while picking is put
back on "light duty," doing the same job that caused the ailment in the first place. Dr. Holmes
reveals the linkages between suffering, inequality caused by global trade's structural violence,
which drives migration, and the symbolic violence of stereotypes and biases, which
legitimize racism by providing voice to Mexican migrant laborers who are otherwise
voiceless. He does so by emphasizing the importance of critically engaged public
anthropology, challenging the medical profession to humanize and contextualize the
biomedical gaze, identifying immigration and health-care reform priorities, and emphasizing
the high costs to human bodies and the environment of cheap food available in the First
World thanks to Third World labor.

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. Furthermore,
exploring the link between today's working circumstances and previous agricultural labor
organizing initiatives would have enriched the book, contextualizing the possibility of new
employees to oppose 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.