Brigitte Steger
Biographic Data
| ID | 310263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigitte Steger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Steger |
| SIGNATURE | STEGER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0783-4687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Piazza Armerina. La villa du Casale et son décor. Des changements repérables au v e siècle
Piazza Armerina. The Casale Villa and its decor. Changes in the 5th century? A quick overview of changes ocurring during the Vth century A.D. in the late roman villa near Piazza Armerina and deductions that archaeologists have been able to make regarding such series of transformations
Piazza Armerina. Les soi-disant personnifications de Mauretania et India aux extrémités du portique de la Grande Chasse
Que signifient les décors des absides du portique de la Grande Chasse ? Les personnifications au centre des deux mosaïques font-elles allusion à des entités géographiques comme cela a été proposé jusqu’à présent ? Et, dans ce cas, lesquelles ? L’analyse iconographique de chaque pavement est suivie d’un bref récapitulatif et d’une discussion des hypothèses proposées à ce jour. En nous appuyant sur un ensemble de parallèles iconographiques et textu…
Stingy, Stingy, Stingy Government’
Since 1 July 2020, all retail businesses in Japan have been required by law to charge customers for plastic carrier bags in order to reduce the use of single-use plastic and to encourage consumers to change their lifestyles. This has resulted in more shoppers using their own bags, but has also drawn more emotional responses. This article analyses reactions to the plastic carrier bag levy in konbini (convenience stores) and discusses how it has ch…
Introduction to Special Collection
Concern around plastic pollution and China’s ban on receiving foreign waste and recyclate have refocused attention on responsible waste management and attracted interdisciplinary research that impacts policy and practice. Consequently, plastic has elevated the role of social science in the innovation space, which has traditionally been occupied by science and enterprise. This opening article marks the launch of a special collection of works, whic…
The Stranger and Others
Oka Masao (1898–1982) was a leading figure in the establishment of Japanese ethnology (cultural anthropology) since the 1930s and taught many of the next generation of ethnologists from Japan. He travelled to Vienna in 1929 to learn the methodology for studying the ethnogenesis of his own country, putting forward theories that questioned tennō-ideology of the time and became highly influential. During the war, he pushed for the establishment of a…
Japan Copes with Calamity
Japan Copes with Calamity
Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters - David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography - Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture - Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture - Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Dis…
The Slumbering Masses
Reviewed by: The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Brigitte Steger Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer. The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xvi + 288 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-8166-7474-9). Matthew Wolf-Meyer is interested in “the embodied limits of the elimination of sleep—the defiance of bodies to particular technoscientific future…
‘We were all in this together… - Challenges to and practices of cleanliness in tsunami evacuation shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, 2011
Based on ethnographic research in tsunami evacuation shelters in the coastal town of Yamada, this article explores how people have employed hygiene practices to regain control over their lives after the tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011. By considering toilets and baths, shoes and food, face masks and cleaning routines, it discusses issues of health and wellbeing, and shame and solidarity, and shows how people have resorted to han (group) struct…
Kulturkreis
Insomnia
Sleeping through Class to Success
Japanese high-school students often study until late into the night and sacrifice their sleep in order to pass entrance and other exams. On the other hand, they often take a nap in the (late) afternoon, and daytime napping or inemuri is widely tolerated. This article asks what cultural and social sense it makes to keep students up for studying, when they cannot concentrate on what is being said in class. It examines notions of time and diligence …
Getting Away with Sleep--Social and Cultural Aspects of Dozing in Parliament
Getting Away with Sleep—Social and Cultural Aspects of Dozing in Parliament Get access Brigitte Steger Brigitte Steger She may be contacted at the Department of East Asian Studies—Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, Campus AAKH, Hof 2, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria, or by e‐mail at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1 Octo…
Translating Academic Research to the Public
From impurity to hygiene
Sleeping through Class to Success
Japanese high-school students often study until late into the night and sacrifice their sleep in order to pass entrance and other exams. On the other hand, they often take a nap in the (late) afternoon, and daytime napping or inemuri is widely tolerated. This article asks what cultural and social sense it makes to keep students up for studying, when they cannot concentrate on what is being said in class. It examines notions of time and diligence …
Introduction to Special Collection
Concern around plastic pollution and China’s ban on receiving foreign waste and recyclate have refocused attention on responsible waste management and attracted interdisciplinary research that impacts policy and practice. Consequently, plastic has elevated the role of social science in the innovation space, which has traditionally been occupied by science and enterprise. This opening article marks the launch of a special collection of works, whic…
Stingy, Stingy, Stingy Government’
Since 1 July 2020, all retail businesses in Japan have been required by law to charge customers for plastic carrier bags in order to reduce the use of single-use plastic and to encourage consumers to change their lifestyles. This has resulted in more shoppers using their own bags, but has also drawn more emotional responses. This article analyses reactions to the plastic carrier bag levy in konbini (convenience stores) and discusses how it has ch…
From impurity to hygiene
From impurity to hygiene
Getting Away with Sleep--Social and Cultural Aspects of Dozing in Parliament
Getting Away with Sleep—Social and Cultural Aspects of Dozing in Parliament Get access Brigitte Steger Brigitte Steger She may be contacted at the Department of East Asian Studies—Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, Campus AAKH, Hof 2, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria, or by e‐mail at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1 Octo…
Translating Academic Research to the Public
Sleeping through Class to Success
Japanese high-school students often study until late into the night and sacrifice their sleep in order to pass entrance and other exams. On the other hand, they often take a nap in the (late) afternoon, and daytime napping or inemuri is widely tolerated. This article asks what cultural and social sense it makes to keep students up for studying, when they cannot concentrate on what is being said in class. It examines notions of time and diligence …
Insomnia
Kulturkreis
‘We were all in this together… - Challenges to and practices of cleanliness in tsunami evacuation shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, 2011
Based on ethnographic research in tsunami evacuation shelters in the coastal town of Yamada, this article explores how people have employed hygiene practices to regain control over their lives after the tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011. By considering toilets and baths, shoes and food, face masks and cleaning routines, it discusses issues of health and wellbeing, and shame and solidarity, and shows how people have resorted to han (group) struct…
Japan Copes with Calamity
Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters - David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography - Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture - Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture - Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Dis…
The Slumbering Masses
Reviewed by: The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer Brigitte Steger Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer. The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xvi + 288 pp. Ill. $24.95 (978-0-8166-7474-9). Matthew Wolf-Meyer is interested in “the embodied limits of the elimination of sleep—the defiance of bodies to particular technoscientific future…
Japan Copes with Calamity
The Stranger and Others
Oka Masao (1898–1982) was a leading figure in the establishment of Japanese ethnology (cultural anthropology) since the 1930s and taught many of the next generation of ethnologists from Japan. He travelled to Vienna in 1929 to learn the methodology for studying the ethnogenesis of his own country, putting forward theories that questioned tennō-ideology of the time and became highly influential. During the war, he pushed for the establishment of a…
Stingy, Stingy, Stingy Government’
Since 1 July 2020, all retail businesses in Japan have been required by law to charge customers for plastic carrier bags in order to reduce the use of single-use plastic and to encourage consumers to change their lifestyles. This has resulted in more shoppers using their own bags, but has also drawn more emotional responses. This article analyses reactions to the plastic carrier bag levy in konbini (convenience stores) and discusses how it has ch…
Introduction to Special Collection
Concern around plastic pollution and China’s ban on receiving foreign waste and recyclate have refocused attention on responsible waste management and attracted interdisciplinary research that impacts policy and practice. Consequently, plastic has elevated the role of social science in the innovation space, which has traditionally been occupied by science and enterprise. This opening article marks the launch of a special collection of works, whic…
Piazza Armerina. Les soi-disant personnifications de Mauretania et India aux extrémités du portique de la Grande Chasse
Que signifient les décors des absides du portique de la Grande Chasse ? Les personnifications au centre des deux mosaïques font-elles allusion à des entités géographiques comme cela a été proposé jusqu’à présent ? Et, dans ce cas, lesquelles ? L’analyse iconographique de chaque pavement est suivie d’un bref récapitulatif et d’une discussion des hypothèses proposées à ce jour. En nous appuyant sur un ensemble de parallèles iconographiques et textu…
Piazza Armerina. La villa du Casale et son décor. Des changements repérables au v e siècle
Piazza Armerina. The Casale Villa and its decor. Changes in the 5th century? A quick overview of changes ocurring during the Vth century A.D. in the late roman villa near Piazza Armerina and deductions that archaeologists have been able to make regarding such series of transformations
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)