Toward an Integrated Anthropology of Infant Sleep
Toward an Integrated Anthropology of Infant Sleep
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DOI：
10.1111/aman.13284
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发表时间：
2019-07-08
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
McKenna, James J.
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作者：
Ball, Helen L.;Tomori, Cecilia;McKenna, James J.
本文对婴儿睡眠的人类学研究进行了新颖的综合，重点关注过去十年的生物和社会文化人类学工作。首先，我们简要回顾了 1987 年至 2007 年对婴儿睡眠的早期生物人类学研究，这些研究为以下论点提供了证据基础：亲子睡眠与哺乳相结合代表了构成人类进化规范的一系列复杂的适应。这项工作挑战了西方儿科婴儿睡眠研究范式，该范式将配方奶或奶瓶喂养的单独睡眠婴儿作为人类婴儿睡眠研究和通用模型的基础。接下来，我们将讨论最近的研究如何建立在这些基础上，并将人类学见解扩展到婴儿睡眠的新方面。继续领导这项研究的生物人类学家已经深入研究了亲子睡眠的荷尔蒙和行为生态学以及夜间护理和亲子冲突的权衡。此外，他们在将人类学研究转化为临床和卫生服务环境中的政策和实践方面取得了重大进展。直到最近，社会文化人类学主要将婴儿睡眠作为更广泛努力的一部分来解决，但没有明确关注婴儿睡眠。我们重点介绍一些关键的民族志著作，这些著作揭示了母婴共享睡眠与母乳喂养的文化常态和相互体现的经验，有助于消除西方关于婴儿睡眠的讨论的中心。最后，我们讨论了未来的研究议程，以推进人类婴儿睡眠的综合人类学，考虑其完整的生物学和社会文化背景。研究婴儿睡眠的综合人类学方法不仅为新颖的跨子领域人类学研究提供了一条前进的道路，而且有助于指导更有效和公平的母婴健康方法。 [夜间护理、育儿、婴儿、睡眠]
This article provides a novel synthesis of anthropological research on infant sleep, focusing on work in biological and sociocultural anthropology in the past decade. First, we briefly review early biological anthropological research into infant sleep from 1987 to 2007, which provided the evidence base for the argument that proximate parent-infant sleep combined with lactation represents a complex set of adaptations that constitute the human evolutionary norm. This work challenged the Western pediatric infant sleep research paradigm, which positioned formula- or bottle-fed solitary sleeping infants as the basis for research and universal models about human infant sleep. Next, we address how recent research has built on these foundations and extended anthropological insights into new aspects of infant sleep. Biological anthropologists, who continue to lead this research, have advanced into the hormonal and behavioral ecology of parent-infant sleep and trade-offs in nighttime care and parent-infant conflict. Moreover, they have made significant progress in translating anthropological research into policy and practice in clinical and health delivery settings. Until recently, sociocultural anthropology has primarily addressed infant sleep as part of broader endeavors, without an explicit focus on infant sleep. We highlight key ethnographic works that shed light on the cultural normalcy and interembodied experience of shared maternal-infant sleep with breastfeeding that help de-center Western discourses of infant sleep. We conclude by discussing future research agendas to forward an integrated anthropology of human infant sleep that considers its full biological and sociocultural context. Integrated anthropological approaches to infant sleep not only present a path forward for novel cross-subfield anthropological research but could help guide more effective and equitable approaches to maternal-infant health. [nighttime care, parenting, infancy, sleep]