Sleep around the world [electronic resource] : anthropological perspectives / edited by Katie Glaskin and Richard Chenhall.

Although humans sleep for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. As a biological universal, it is easy to overlook the degree to which culture shapes how we sleep, with whom we sleep, where and when we sleep, and how we conceptualize sleep. This edited volume expl...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Glaskin, Katie, Chenhall, Richard
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Culture, mind, and society.
Subjects:	Sleeping customs > Cross-cultural studies. Sleeping customs. Cross-cultural studies.