GREEK COFFEE AND COFFEE HOUSE TRADITIONS IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL DISCOURSE
DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2021-3/274-286
Keywords:
Greek coffee, Cypriot coffee, Cretan coffee, Greek traditional coffee house, women’s coffee house, political discourse, gender issueAbstract
The article is dedicated to coffee and coffee houses in modern Greek culture. Names of coffee types among the Greeks are embedded in a specific political discourse that sheds light on the long and unfinished conflict between Greece and Turkey. Similar processes of re-naming drinks with ethnonyms in their names are observed in other Balkan countries. A traditional Greek coffee house has its roots in the Turkish tradition. During the Greek liberation movement against the Ottomans, it often becomes a place to discuss the development of a new state and Greek identity. Nowadays, the focus of discussions is shifting to the confrontation between different parties and the gender issue, which even leads to the phenomenon of a “women's coffee house”, which is first explored in the present study. On the one hand, a “women's coffee house” violates tradition, but on the other, it once again reveals the constant nature and mechanisms of modern Greek traditional culture.
For Citation: Sidneva, S.A. 2021. Greek Coffee and Coffee House Traditions in Contemporary Political Discourse. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii) 3: 274–286.
