Bendixsen Casper
Marshfield Clinic Research Institute.
J Anthropol N Am. 2019 Fall;22(2):139-142. doi: 10.1002/nad.12118. Epub 2019 Nov 20.
Children are commonly and often fatally injured in agricultural settings that include family farms, constituting fully half of all working youth fatalities in the United States. Yet certain aspects of farm life that expose children to harm are also linked to positive health outcomes, a phenomenon that this essay terms "the farm kid paradox." It reviews applied anthropological research on the differential intertwining of health and hazard, and reflects on the role of the anthropologist as a broker of facts and concepts between diverse stakeholders and farm environments.
在美国,儿童在包括家庭农场在内的农业环境中经常受到致命伤害,此类伤害占到所有青年劳动者死亡人数的整整一半。然而,农场生活中某些使儿童面临伤害的方面也与积极的健康结果相关联,本文将这一现象称为“农场儿童悖论”。本文回顾了关于健康与危害之间不同交织关系的应用人类学研究,并思考了人类学家作为不同利益相关者与农场环境之间事实与观念传递者的角色。