By the Sweat of Other Brows: Thai Migrant Labor and the Transformation of Israeli Settler Agriculture
By the Sweat of Other Brows: Thai Migrant Labor and the Transformation of Israeli Settler Agriculture by Matan Kaminer A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology) in The University of Michigan 2019 Doctoral Committee: Professor Andrew Shryock, Chair Associate Professor Jason De León Professor Alaina Lemon Associate Professor Daniel Nemser Assistant Professor Scott Stonington “I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns, and, perhaps, to bloom.” – Richard Wright, Black Boy To Adam He said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” – Genesis 3:17-19 “Now, Ananda, when a monk or brahman says thus: ‘It seems that there are evil kammas [karmas], there is the result of misconduct,’ I concede that to him. “When he says thus: ‘For I have seen that some person killed living beings, took what is not given, misconducted himself in sexual desires, spoke falsehood, spoke maliciously, spoke harshly, gossiped, was covetous, was ill-willed, and had wrong view.
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