Item #7886 Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West : Exploring the Dark Side of Life. Brigitte und Lodewijk Brunt Steger, Hg.

Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West : Exploring the Dark Side of Life

Wien: Universität Wien, 2006.

Trade Paperback. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #7886
ISBN: 3900362211

Corner bump, slight wear. Crisp trade paperback. ; Contents: 1 Introduction: into the night and the world of sleep - BRIGITTE STEGER AND LODEWIJK BRUNT; 2 Sleeping time in early Chinese literature - ANTJE RICHTER; 3 Discourse of mid-day napping: a political windsock in contemporary China - LI YI; 4 Negotiating sleep patterns in Japan - BRIGITTE STEGER; 5 Sleep without a home: the embedment of sleep in the lives of the rough-sleeping homeless in Amsterdam - PETER RENSEN; 6 Sleep and night-time combat in contemporary armed forces: technology, knowledge and the enhancement of the soldier's body - EYAL BEN-ARI; 7 'The Mirk Shades O'Nicht': nocturnal representations of urban Scotland in the nineteenth century - IRENE MAVER; 8 Night-time and deviant behaviour: the changing night scene of Japanese youth - AYUKAWAJUN; 9 Between day and night: urban time schedules in Bombay and other cities - LODEWIJK BRUNT; 10 'What Time Do You Call This?': change and continuity in thepolitics of the city night - CHRIS NOTTINGHAM.; Beiträge zur Japanologie; Vol. 38; 224 pages.

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