at Google ScholarTitle data
Mann, Anna ; Mol, Annemarie ; Satalkar, Priya ; Savirani, Amalinda ; Selim, Nasima ; Sur, Malini ; Yates-Doerr, Emily:
Mixing methods, tasting fingers : Notes on an ethnographic experiment.
In: HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory.
Vol. 1
(2011)
Issue 1
.
- pp. 221-243.
ISSN 2049-1115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14318/hau1.1.009
Abstract in another language
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?
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | method; tasting; food; experiment; fingers; fluid; senses |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social and Cultural Anthropology Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social and Cultural Anthropology > Chair Social and Cultural Anthropology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2021 12:45 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2023 09:49 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/67391 |