Mixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an ethnographic experiment

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 221-243

  Mann, Anna ^a   Mol, Annemarie ^a   Satalkar, Priya ^b   Savirani, Amalinda ^b   Selim, Nasima ^c   Sur, Malini ^a   Yates Doerr, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Experiment; Fingers; Fluid; Food; Method; Senses; Tasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861717154     PISSN: 25751433     EISSN: 20491115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau1.1.009     Document Type: Article

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