Roger Ivar Lohmann, Trent University, CanadaKalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne, AustraliaYasmine Musharbash, University of Sydney, AustraliaDiana Adis Tahhan, University of New South Wales, AustraliaLisa Carrie Goldberg, University of Western AustraliaMonica Toselli, University of Firenze, ItalyAngela Costabile, University of Calabria, ItalyM. Luisa Genta, University of Bologna, ItalyRachel Morgain, Australian National UniversityToon van Meijl, University of Nijmegen, the NetherlandsShayne A. P. Dahl, Trent University, Canada

"Sleep is understudied in anthropology - and there are remarkably few published resources available. This is not only ironic because of the many sleep-related experiences of fieldworkers, but because all human beings spend approximately one-third of their lives asleep - quite a lot of time to go by unexamined. The study of sleep is of tremendous and increasing popular (as well as academic) interest and this book will remain fresh for a long time. It will appeal to anthropologists in general, particularly medical, psychological, and cultural anthropologists." - Shelley R. Adler, Professor, University of California, San Francisco, USA

• Introduction: Sleep Around the World: Anthropological Perspectives; Richard Chenhall and Katie Glaskin 1. Sleeping among the Asabano: Surprises in Intimacy and Sociality at the Margins of Consciousness; Roger Ivar Lohman 2. Embodied Meaning: Sleeping Arrangements in Central Australia; Yasmine Musharbash 3. Sensuous Connections in Sleep: Feelings of Security and Interdependency in Japanese Sleep Rituals; Diana Adis Tahhan 4. Envisioning Sleep in Contemporary Sleep Science; Lisa Carrie Goldberg 5. Infant Sleep and Waking: Mothers' Ideas and Practices in Two Italian Cultural Contexts; Monica Toselli, Angela Costabile, and M. Luisa Genta 6. Sleeping Safe: Perceptions of Risk and Value in Western and Pacific Infant Co-sleeping; Kalissa Alexeyeff 7. M?ori Collective Sleeping as Cultural Resistance; Toon van Meijl 8. Navigating Inspiration, Intimacy, Conflict, and Sleep in a Pagan Community; Rachel Morgain 9. Sleep Deprivation and the Vision Quest of Native North America; Shayne A. P. Dahl 10. 'In Their Dream They Go': Sleep, Memory, and the Metaphysical; Katie Glaskin