A Hard Day’s Night and a Day of Sleep - Social and Cultural Aspects of Sleeping in Class

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) See map
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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