Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula

An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia

Andrea Matošević (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-135-6 (ISBN)

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Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.

Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula, a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed, and in Pula’s urban slang it has morphed from its original sense describing a set of affective states into one of lameness, loneliness, unwillingness, and irony. Combining lively conversations with a significant bibliography of the topic, the result is a compelling local anthropological study of boredom in a wider historical and global context.

Andrea Matošević is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities and one of the founders and researchers at the Centre for Culturological and Historical Research of Socialism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (Croatia).

List of Figures

Preface to the English Translation

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. On Tapija: An Ethnography of the City’s Imponderables

Chapter 2. Boredom, or the City Yawns

Chapter 3. On Dominant Articulations and Reaches of Tapija

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	European Anthropology in Translation
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-135-3 / 1800731353
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-135-6 / 9781800731356
Zustand	Neuware