Tag: Bored

Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia


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English | ISBN: 1800731353 | 2021 | 144 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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.

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Angry, Bored, Confused A Citizen Handbook Of American Politics


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 0813368847, 0813368855, 036731455X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 1.0 mb
Angry, bored, and confused-three words that aptly describe the typical American’s view toward the world of politics. But it doesn’t have to stay this way, argues Michael Kryzanek, in Angry, Bored, Confused. Kryzanek discusses issues central to American politics-citizenship, power, leadership, problem solving, initiating change-through a series of straightforward questions, with sometimes surprising answers. Angry, Bored, and Confused examines American politics from the perspective of an anxious consumer seeking to understand the political world, and to change it for the better.

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