Chapter 29 (Stoller and Oakes) discusses tasteful ethnography and the significance of bad sauces within the Songhay people. Stoller and Olkes conducted fieldwork in Sahelian West Africa with the Songhay people. They mention that the Songhay people take pride in their hospitality as they believe that guests in their house should receive the best of what their hosts can provide. In addition, Stoller and Olkes went to the compound of Adamu Jenitonogo, Tillaberi to study/discuss the medicinal properties of plants with Adamu Jenitonogo as he was thought to be the most knowledgeable healer. The authors mention that Songhay people make the best and most tasteful sauces especially when Europeans visit. When Stoller and Olkes arrived that year it also
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The authors mention that disciplinary constrains force writers to focus on theory. They mention that a ethnographic writing only gets published when one submits their manuscript to a publisher/journal who then might publish the work if it falls within the representation of the discipline. The manuscript would be rejected and then provided with comments regarding how the author could transform their work into ‘digestible food’. They mention that tasteful ethnography are descriptive, non-theoretical, and memorable. Tastefull anthropology involves describing with vividness the smells, tastes and textures of the people they study. The authors also mention that Moussa was chosen to succeed Adamu Jenitonogo as leader therefore, Djebo, Moru and Jemma chose to make life miserable for Moussa, his mother and Adamy Jenitonogo. This would be done by again sauce, they would use sauce to express their angry and frustration. I believe tasteful anthropology might not be the best way to write an ethnography because something might smell, taste or feel different to the research than to the
The authors mention that disciplinary constrains force writers to focus on theory. They mention that a ethnographic writing only gets published when one submits their manuscript to a publisher/journal who then might publish the work if it falls within the representation of the discipline. The manuscript would be rejected and then provided with comments regarding how the author could transform their work into ‘digestible food’. They mention that tasteful ethnography are descriptive, non-theoretical, and memorable. Tastefull anthropology involves describing with vividness the smells, tastes and textures of the people they study. The authors also mention that Moussa was chosen to succeed Adamu Jenitonogo as leader therefore, Djebo, Moru and Jemma chose to make life miserable for Moussa, his mother and Adamy Jenitonogo. This would be done by again sauce, they would use sauce to express their angry and frustration. I believe tasteful anthropology might not be the best way to write an ethnography because something might smell, taste or feel different to the research than to the