Abstract
The goal of this paper is to introduce a new field of anthropological research: the night. In meetings of psychophysiologists and anthropologists, persistent questions reveal an amazing theoretical and methodological gap in research on the nocturnal segment of the 24-hour day-night cycle, or nychthemeron. Thus, a more general question has taken shape: Is the night something that should or could be studied by anthropologists? If so, what methods should be used to study it? In particular, how can we reconcile a psychophysiological study of factors common to all humans with the holistic anthropological approach to the phenomenon of “the night,” highlighting its cultural differences? We think that before answering such questions, it is necessary to describe field studies of nighttime activities in which beliefs, discourse, behavior, and ritual objects of the night are differently oriented than during the day. Far from searching for similarities in fieldwork and problematics, a great variety of contrastive sit...
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