1st Edition
Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West Exploring the Dark Side of Life
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
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.
