maps/streams

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Hi . Are you returning the discussion of streams/maps to the field

for further play?

The map in Ingolf Vogeler (1982) is similar to maps in -Truman , 1965,

The Slaves We Rent; -National Migrant Information Clearing House

(Juarez-Lincoln Center, Austin), 1974; -President's Commission on Mental

Health, 1978, Task Panel Report: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers; -

Goldfarb, 1981, Migrant Farm Workers: A Caste of Despair. There. That's

four before Vogeler's 1982 map. Also, Dement, 1985, Out of Sight,

Out of Mind. Dement has a second map two pages away. Although they closely

replicate each other, alterations that are noticeable in these maps is the

ambiguity on whether farmworkers were going from FL to TX, or TX to FL, or

from TX to CA, or CA to TX; KY, TN and ME, as receiving areas, were left

out of some of the maps. Although Puerto Rico is shown as a worker source

on some maps, the southwestern states and none of the northern states show

border origins (the southwestern border became increasingly porous after

cessation of the Bracero Program). These maps vary in their artistic

production: some show the streams as wispy, some show them as stubby. There

is a consistency in the sickle-streamlet that runs from Montana into North

Dakota. I think of wheat farms when I see the sickle-streamlet on these

maps: the roots of itinerant farm labor, and subsequent formations of farm

work we have today, are traced to the industrialization of wheat farms in

the middle/late 1800s. None of these maps show much in the way of

short-travel, which NAWS handles by devising the concepts of settled,

shuttle and follow-the-crop workers. Unless the decreasing mass of the

streams and streamlets is meant to represent decreasing numbers of persons,

engaged in agricultural labor, as one proceeds from home-base locales.

I mentioned Carey Mc, 1942, Ill Fares the Land, in my Jan 30 2002

list-serve thank you. There apparently are other early maps which I am

seeking to secure. And there are several very different maps that were

prepared by other folks, other groups.

Unsuccessful with Vogeler's " many web sites, " I went directly to the

library for The Myth of the Family Farm. Vogeler relies heavily in the

latter half of his book on Walter Goldschmidt's 1944 study in CA, which he

was not permitted to continue to a second phase. An anthropologist,

Goldschmidt describes this incident in a remembrance-essay in the American

Anthropologist (Volume 102, Number 4, 2001).

Halo? . Are you still there...?

V Bletzer. Dep of Anthropology, Arizona State Univ.