The Interviewee that Creates a Storm in a Teacup: That’s Just How It is

Abstract

The study was designed to capture sex workers’ realities, including information on their lifestyles, beliefs, values, and culture. Ethnographic research can be portrayed as detailing an insider’s outlook from the horse’s mouth. This approach entails abandoning one’s position and adopting another. Doro Manekia of the Piazza area displays an array of butchers’ shops famous for their uniquely Ethiopian dish of tire siga-raw meat. The competition is expressed by their cajoling gesture to the passerby and showing off the quality of layers of chopped raw meat from beef, lamb, and goat’s meat served on plates. The famous shanty corner of Doro Manekia is known not only for its delicious meat but also for its sexual feat. A few meters down the butchers’ shops and curbing to the left is a colony of impoverished residential bed-sitters rented by female sex workers. While the sex workers’ single rooms are open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, visits to them thrive more at night than day, and at weekends than weekdays.