Sensory science research on taste: An ethnography of two laboratory experiments in Western Europe

Anna Mann

doi:10.1080/07409710.2017.1420352

Sensory science research on taste: An ethnography of two laboratory experiments in Western Europe

Anna Mann

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Recent ethnographies from the anthropology of food and the senses have shown how moments in which people taste foods are shaped by scientific knowledge, methods, and rationales. Building on approaches developed in science and technology studies, this article offers an ethnography of the field to which this shaping power has been assigned: the scientific study of taste. Detailed tracing and analysis of two laboratory experiments on taste performed in laboratories in Western Europe brings out how both turn moments in which people taste into a bodily response. At the same time, since their technical set-ups address different societal problems and varying interest groups, they stage diverging versions: a perception versus a reaction to an exposure. The article, thus, sheds light on how cultural and social norms, ideals, and practices shape the knowledge production about taste and its resulting effects.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Food and Foodways
Vol/bind	26
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	23-39
ISSN	0740-9710
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2017.1420352
Status	Udgivet - 2 jan. 2018

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