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Title |
Title of document |
Mixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an ethnographic experiment |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Anna M. Mann; Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research; United States |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Annemarie M. Mol; University of Amsterdam; United States |
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Author's name, affiliation, country |
Priya Satalkar; Erasmus Mundus Masters of Bioethics, Fruitstraat 5b, 9741 AN Groningen, the Netherlands, 31-633613912; United States |
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Author's name, affiliation, country |
Amalinda Savirani; Gadjah Mada University, Jl Socio Justisia, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; United States |
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Author's name, affiliation, country |
Nasima Selim; University of Amsterdam, Bijltjespad 80B, 1018 KJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; United States |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Malini Sur; Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, Kloverniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam; United States |
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Author's name, affiliation, country |
Emily Yates-Doerr; Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, Kloverniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam; United States |
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Anthropology; Science Studies |
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Description |
Abstract |
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? |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory |
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2011-11-26
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF, HTML, EPUB, MOBI |
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Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau1.1.009 |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) |
https://doi.org/10.14318/hau1.1.009 |
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Source |
Title; vol., no. (year) |
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory; Vol 1, No 1 (2011): The G-Factor of Anthropology: Archaeologies of Kin(g)ship |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Copyright (c)
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