The Devil’s Fruit uses anthropology’s tool kit to examine farmworkers’ embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships in California’s agricultural industry. Rather than stopping at description and critique, Saxton explores how activist ethnographic methods and ethics align, conflict, and support ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice.
The Devil’s Fruit uses anthropology’s tool kit to examine farmworkers’ embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships in California’s agricultural industry. Rather than stopping at description and critique, Saxton explores how activist ethnographic methods and ethics align, conflict, and support ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice.
DVERA I. SAXTON is an assistant professor of anthropology at California State University, Fresno.
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Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson Abbreviations
Introduction: Becoming an Engaged Activist Ethnographer 1: Engaged Anthropology with Farmworkers: Building Rapport, Busting Myths 2: Strawberries: An (Un)natural History
3: Pesticides and Farmworker Health: Toxic Layers, Invisible Harm
Introduction: Becoming an Engaged Activist Ethnographer 1: Engaged Anthropology with Farmworkers: Building Rapport, Busting Myths 2: Strawberries: An (Un)natural History
3: Pesticides and Farmworker Health: Toxic Layers, Invisible Harm