In this reflective essay, Turkish-British curator and anthropologist Huma Kabakcı explores the cultural, symbolic, and gendered dimensions of Turkish coffee and coffee cup readings. Weaving personal narratives with historical and anthropological insight, she traces how Turkish coffee rituals shaped by Ottoman traditions and layered with gendered connotations, spiritual symbolism, and diasporic memory function as intimate acts of identity, conviviality, and divination.
Tenderfoot is a ‘Materiality’ website/artwork by Laura White. It includes Laura’s writing on materiality, a curated space where Laura invites writers, researchers, artists and other individuals to showcase a piece of work, a forum for discussions on materiality plus lots of other stuff… Laura is interested in what it means to be in the world of materials, objects and stuff, and exploring the digital and the physical environments which are increasingly indistinguishable.
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