TY - JOUR TI - Waterpipe. The rethinking of an ethnical practice’s meaning in city AU - Nagy, Viktória TI - Waterpipe. The rethinking of an ethnical practice’s meaning in city AB - The paper attempts to examine the multicultural society of Budapest in the context of the Oriental tradition brought by the Arab, Turkish and Persian immigrants. The author presents the smoking of waterpipe as an object of a transfer from immigrants custom into general fashion. According to the author, by using sheesha the transmitters make effort to create familiarity and feeling like at home. Nevertheless, this practice dislodged from the original context (or users) and became a fashionable mean to create or to support social circles. This is a good example of general question of a process by which ethnic traditions and customs become parts of life in multicultural environment of big cities nowadays. VL - 2013 IS - Tom 41, Numer 3 PY - 2013 SN - 0083-4327 C1 - 2299-9558 SP - 211 EP - 221 DO - 10.4467/22999558.PE.13.018.1359 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-etnograficzne/artykul/waterpipe-the-rethinking-of-an-ethnical-practices-meaning-in-city