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Hottentot b-b-blues

Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel, awein{at}mscc.huji.ac.il

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.

Key Words: stuttering • Hottentots • academic culture • autoethnography • self-loathing • group formation

Ethnography, Vol. 9, No. 1, 123-131 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1466138108088950


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