Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula

Download or read book Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula written by Andrea Matošević and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.