Worlds of sleep / Lodewijk Brunt, Brigitte Steger (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brunt, Lodewijk.

Steger, Brigitte.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sleep.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Frank & Timme, 2008.

Berlin Frank & Timme 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long description: A rikshaw as a bed? A mobile phone as a teddybear? Nightly struggles with bedbugs? Worlds of Sleep investigates the sleep patterns of babies and businessmen, of mothers and daughters, of the industrious and the idle. Read how mighty knights and zealous preachers value sleep, what medicine men and modern scholars think of it. Explore what disturbs lovers’ sleep and how refugees ensure their restful slumber. The eleven chapters present fascinating new insights into the social and cultural variations of the dormant side of life around the globe.

Biographical note: Lodewijk Brunt is Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has conducted fieldwork in India for many years and has published on night-life. Brigitte Steger is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely on sleep, incl. the award-winning (Keine) Zeit zum Schlafen? (LIT 2004). Steger and Brunt co-edited: Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West (Routledge 2003; pb 2006)

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Dangerous Doze: Sleep and Vulnerability in Medieval German Literature""; ""The Suburbs of Eternity: On Visionaries and Miraculous Sleepers""; ""Beds Visible and Invisible: Hygiene, Morals and Status in Dutch Bedrooms""; ""A Bed for Two? Gender Differences in the Reactions to Pair-sleep""; ""Conflicting Sleep Demands: Parents and Young People in UK Households""; ""Women�s Sleep in Italy: The Influence of Caregiving Roles""; ""Sote hue log: In and Out of Sleep in India""

""�It�s Bedtime� in the World�s Urban Middle Classes: Children, Families and Sleep1""""Sleeping as a Refuge? Embodied Vulnerability and Corporeal Security during Refugees� Sleep at the Thai-Burma Border""; ""�Early to Rise�: Making the Japanese Healthy, Wealthy, Wise, Virtuous, and Beautiful""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86596-920-8

9783865969200

OCLC:

834541789