Tripe Soup at the Service Area: Thoughts about an Infrastructure of Meaningful Sociality

Autor(en)

Michael Anranter

Abstrakt

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.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

Band

18

Seiten

152-166

Anzahl der Seiten

15

ISSN

1736-6518

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0010

Publikationsdatum

06-2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504009 Ethnologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Cultural Studies, Anthropology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0b6e9307-0544-45a0-add2-81508bb1428b