ANTH 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pierre Bourdieu, Postmodern Philosophy, Food Systems
7 Dec 2020
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Holmes (medical anthropologist) traveled with a group of undocumented triqui migrant laborers across the mexico-us border in 2004 as part of a long-term study on the lives of farm workers. Holmes" fieldwork is focused on the way hierarchies and injustices are reproduced in health care and food systems. He was interested in structural violence (i. e. the way that larger systems reproduce and justify poor treatment of some and not others) This book focuses on cultural anthropology, emphasizing the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, behaviors, and products of human societies (i. e. culture) As a social science, seeks patterns of behaviors, placing it in a larger context. Fieldwork: a period of research undertaken by anthropologists during which they insert themselves in the midst of the people they wish to work among, with, and for. Ethnography: the process of doing and analyzing fieldwork, and then writing about it in the form of a book, essay, dissertation, or film.
