The politics of the coffee pot: Its changing role in history-making and the place of religion in the Sultanate of Oman

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Titre

The politics of the coffee pot: Its changing role in history-making and the place of religion in the Sultanate of Oman

Créateur

Sachedina, Amal Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2019

Dans

History and Anthropology Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Centered on the dalla, the Omani coffee pot, this paper considers how the social practices and knowledges induced by its material form and function organize different forms of perceptual skills. These skills habituate ways of seeing that become a means towards examining the shift from the religio–ethical relationships that defined the shari'a society of the last Ibadi Islamic Imamate that ruled the interior of the region (1913–1955) to those that define ‘heritage’ as part of Omani modern nation state building today. As a coffee server in the Imamate era, the dalla facilitated a history that was primarily moral in nature, oriented towards God and divine salvation. From 1970 onwards, as a visual symbol, it became an integral part of a national linear chronicle of progressive historicity. Through a shift in authoritative time, rationales of temporality, ethics and history were reconfigured, displacing an Imamate while establishing a modern-day Sultanate in its place.

Langue

eng

volume

30

numéro

3

pages

233-255

doi

10.1080/02757206.2019.1594803

issn

0275-7206

Sachedina, Amal, “The politics of the coffee pot: Its changing role in history-making and the place of religion in the Sultanate of Oman”, 2019, bibliographie, consulté le 19 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/7791