Living with the Past in Modern Sudanese Village. Traditional Pottery Production in the Ad-Dabba Bend of the Nile

• Authors: Cedro Aneta , Żurawski Bogdan
• Languages of publication: EN FR DE IT

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the results of ethnographic research aimed at recording household economic behaviours within rural communities in the Ad-Dabba Bend of the Nile. The field research conducted in 2015–2019 provided first-hand insight into patterns of the gendered village’s ceramic production. The only currently operating household workshops in the area, located in Jabarūna and Rūmī Bakrī, are both run by women who produce mainly vessels for storing and cooling water and incense burners. Local residents remember many other similar workshops run by both women and men, which operated quite recently. The potteries in Ad-Dabba, representing a bigger and better organised workshop industry, are run by male descendants of immigrants from Nigeria, known in Sudan as Takarna. The pottery making is their only source of income and the range of forms they make is varied.

Keywords

EN

Sudan; Middle Nile; traditional pottery making; African ceramics; ethnoarchaeology; Hausa; household archaeology

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: XXXII
• Pages: 23-52

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Cedro Aneta

• Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

author

Żurawski Bogdan

• Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/EtudTrav.32.003