A Hard Day's Night and a Day of Sleep - Social and Cultural Aspects of Sleeping in Class
Brigitte Steger - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Room 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS)
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
6511
In Japan, widely tolerated daytime napping or inemuri is frequently associated with and explained by curtailed nocturnal sleep. In the case of ambitious high school students this takes the form of napping in class after many hours of required nighttime study. In this presentation Dr. Steger will attempt to explain the anthropological and sociological background behind this apparent paradox.
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Japan