Brunt / Steger Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West

Exploring the Dark Side of Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-36754-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brunt, Lodewijk

Steger, Brigitte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Lodewijk Brunt and Brigitte Steger Introduction: Into the Night and the World of Sleep

2. Antje Richter Sleeping Time in Early Chinese Literature

3. Li Yi Discourse of Mid-day Napping: A Political Windsock in Contemporary China

4. Brigitte Steger Negotiating Sleep Patterns in Japan

5. Peter Rensen Sleep without a Home: The Embedment of Sleep in the Lives of the Rough-Sleeping Homeless in Amsterdam

6. Eyal Ben-Ari Sleep and Night-time Combat in Contemporary Armed Forces: Technology, Knowledge, and the Enhancement of the Soldier's Body

7. Irene Maver 'The Mirk Shades O'Nicht': Nocturnal Representations of Urban Scotland in the Nineteenth Century

8. Ayukawa Jun Night-time and Deviant Behavior: The Changing Night Scene of Japanese Youth

9. Lodewijk Brunt Between Day and Night. Urban Time Schedules in Bombay (and Some Other Cities)

10. Chris Nottingham 'What Time Do You Call This?' Change and Continuity in the Politics of the City Night