Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West

Exploring the Dark Side of Life
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-86004-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Anthropology of Asia

Ideas and practices concerning sleep and night-time are constantly changing and widely varied in different cultures and societies. What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. Trade unions, political parties, entrepreneurs, leaders and schools boards, all have an interest in questions of timing for the opening and closing of shops, the starting hours of schools and factories, and the number of hours people have to work and sleep. By drawing together comparative case studies from countries in both Asia and Europe, Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West allows the reader to track the differences in the cultural importance given to the night, and to compare the ways in which the challenges and opportunities of modernity have been played out in the East and the West.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brunt, Lodewijk

Steger, Brigitte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction, Brigitte Steger, Lodewijk Brunt; Chapter 2 Sleeping time in early Chinese literature, Antje Richter; Chapter 3 Discourse of mid-day napping, Li Yi; Chapter 4 Negotiating sleep patterns in Japan, Brigitte Steger; Chapter 5 Sleep without a home, Peter Rensen; Chapter 6 Sleep and night-time combat in contemporary armed forces, Eyal Ben-Ari; Chapter 7 ‘The Mirk Shades O’Nicht’, Irene Maver; Chapter 8 Night-time and deviant behaviour, Ayukawa Jun; Chapter 9 Between day and night, Lodewijk Brunt; Chapter 10 ‘What Time Do You Call This?’, Chris Nottingham;

Über Autor(innen)

Brigitte Steger is Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna.,
Lodewijk Brunt is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam.