Hottentot b-b-blues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Weinreb (0000-0003-2441-4040, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-131 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138108088950 |
| OpenAlex | W2048761428 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In this short article I describe the experience of being a stuttering academic, drawing on what I jokingly describe as my longue-durée, multi-sited ethnography of stuttering - that is, my personal identity and experiences as an exotic stutterer moving through space and time. The article plays with the nominal equivalence between Hottentots as the group that long serviced Europeans and their imagined Africa and Hottentots as stutterers ( hotteren-totteren in German). Throughout, I discuss the nature of Hottentot community, reflect on Hottentot paranoia and the lure of the Hottentot (suggesting a Hottentot twist to Simmel's foundational stranger), and engage with some other themes arising from the lived experience of these particular speech deviants
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · Ethnography · Identity (music · Paranoia · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Stuttering Research and Treatment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |