TY - JOUR
T1 - Tripe Soup at the Service Area: Thoughts about an Infrastructure of Meaningful Sociality
AU - Anranter, Michael
PY - 2024/6/6
Y1 - 2024/6/6
N2 - In this paper, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork (participant observation) carried out at a Bulgarian service area to argue that such spaces create a 'meaningful sociality' building on imagination and sensual experience, as well as on experiences of intersectional oppression or dominance. I draw on the history and adaptations of shkembeto (tripe soup) and my observations of its preparation and serving at one such service area. This soup, which is famous in Turkey and Bulgaria, offers some people disorienting sensory experiences that are associated with complex power relations, which makes the service area a site for reflection on discrimination and gender roles. The paper closes with reflections on the sociality of such places, which is ephemeral but meaningful both there and at home.
AB - In this paper, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork (participant observation) carried out at a Bulgarian service area to argue that such spaces create a 'meaningful sociality' building on imagination and sensual experience, as well as on experiences of intersectional oppression or dominance. I draw on the history and adaptations of shkembeto (tripe soup) and my observations of its preparation and serving at one such service area. This soup, which is famous in Turkey and Bulgaria, offers some people disorienting sensory experiences that are associated with complex power relations, which makes the service area a site for reflection on discrimination and gender roles. The paper closes with reflections on the sociality of such places, which is ephemeral but meaningful both there and at home.
KW - Sociality
KW - infrastructure
KW - service area
KW - tripe soup
KW - ethnography
KW - meaningful sociality
UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/JEF/article/view/22926
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85196108930&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2478/jef-2024-0010
DO - 10.2478/jef-2024-0010
M3 - Article
SN - 1736-6518
VL - 18
SP - 152
EP - 166
JO - Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
JF - Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
IS - 1
ER -