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Mixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an ethnographic experiment
Mann, Anna M.
Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research http://www.english.uva.nl/news/professorappointments.cfm/1260D91E-1321-B0BE-A473CB05F914E4
Mol, Annemarie M.
University of Amsterdam http://www.english.uva.nl/news/professorappointments.cfm/1260D91E-1321-B0BE-A473CB05F914E4
Satalkar, Priya
Erasmus Mundus Masters of Bioethics, Fruitstraat 5b, 9741 AN Groningen, the Netherlands, 31-633613912
Savirani, Amalinda
Gadjah Mada University, Jl Socio Justisia, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selim, Nasima
University of Amsterdam, Bijltjespad 80B, 1018 KJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sur, Malini
Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, Kloverniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
Yates-Doerr, Emily
Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, Kloverniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
Anthropology; Science Studies
This article reports on an ethnographic experiment. Four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate with their hands. Drawing on the technique of playing with the familiar and the strange, our aim was not to explain our responses, but to articulate them. As we seek words to do so, we are compelled to stretch the verb "to taste." Tasting, or so our ethnographic experiment suggests, need not be understood as an activity confined to the tongue. Instead, if given a chance, it may viscously spread out to the fingers and come to include appreciative reactions otherwise hard to name. Pleasure and embarrassment, food-like vitality, erotic titillation, the satisfaction or discomfort that follow a meal—we suggest that these may all be included in "tasting." Thus teasing the language alters what speakers and eaters may sense and say. It complements the repertoires available for articulation. But is it okay? Will we be allowed to mess with textbook biology in this way and interfere, not just with anthropological theory, but with the English language itself?
HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory
2011-12-06 00:00:00
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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory; Vol 1, No 1 (2011): The G-Factor of Anthropology: Archaeologies of Kin(g)ship
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2015-02-09T07:45:31Z
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"111127 2011 eng "
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Ethnography as theory
Nader, Laura
Ethnography is never mere description, rather it is a theory of describing that has always been controversial as to the what and how thus inspiring a dynamic intellectual process. The process has been methodologically eclectic and innovative, governed by both consensual and outdated rules. Throughout more than hundred years of Anglo-American ethnography, observation has been combined with a wide variety of theoretical outlooks from structured-functionalist to critical writings.
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2011-12-06 00:00:00
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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory; Vol 1, No 1 (2011): The G-Factor of Anthropology: Archaeologies of Kin(g)ship
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