A nod to World Sleep Day

World Sleep Day is March 15 this year. The annual event is a celebration of sleep and a call to action on issues related to sleep, including medicine, education and social aspects.

In Emory anthropologist Carol Worthman's research around the world, "sleep has emerged as both more flexible and more social than one would think from the perspective of the West," writes Todd Pitock in Aeon Magazine.

"When Worthman started exploring the anthropology of sleep more than a decade ago," the article continues, "the topic was way below the radar of colleagues who believed that culture was something you did while awake. But she found otherwise."

Read the whole article here.

Related:
Some eye-opening thoughts on sleep
What literature can teach us about sleep

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World Sleep Day is March 15 this year. The annual event is a celebration of sleep and a call to action on issues related to sleep, including medicine, education and social aspects.

In Emory anthropologist Carol Worthman's research around the world, "sleep has emerged as both more flexible and more social than one would think from the perspective of the West," writes Todd Pitock in Aeon Magazine.

"When Worthman started exploring the anthropology of sleep more than a decade ago," the article continues, "the topic was way below the radar of colleagues who believed that culture was something you did while awake. But she found otherwise."

Read the whole article here.

Related:
Some eye-opening thoughts on sleep
What literature can teach us about sleep

from eScienceCommons https://ift.tt/2OaKFLS