Full 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, 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.
Contents
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
