Description
Product ID: | 9781800731356 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | European Anthropology in Translation |
Title: | Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula |
Subtitle: | An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia |
Authors: | Author: Andrea Matosevic |
Page Count: | 144 |
Subjects: | Social groups, communities and identities, Social groups, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Croatia |
Description: | 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. |
Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-07-16 |