Andrea Silva-Caballero
Grant Type
Hunt Postdoctoral FellowshipInstitutional Affiliation
Independent ScholarGrant number
Gr. 10385Approve Date
October 11, 2022Project Title
Silva-Caballero, Andrea (Independent Scholar) "Adolescent sleep development and variability in non-industrial environments: patterning, efficiency and cultural representations"ANDREA SILVA-CABALLERO, an independent scholar, Mexico City, Mexico, was awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship to aid writing and research on “Adolescent Sleep Development and Variability in Non-industrial Environments: Patterning, Efficiency and Cultural Representations.” This project involved the writing of four original articles for peer-reviewed journals that informed current understanding of sleep development through comparing adolescent sleep characteristics (i.e., duration, quality, timing, and self-satisfaction with sleep) across three distinct socio-cultural settings in Mexico. Thanks to the Wenner-Gren Foundation support, the grantee was able to publish two articles in high-impact journals and write three additional manuscripts (two of which are already under review, while one is ready for submission to an academic journal). This corpus adds to the growing pool of anthropological evidence that culture influences objective and subjective sleep measurements. The question of how sleep needs are conceptualized and met within each population is not minor since ideas and practices shape sleep ecologies and lie at the center of human sleep-wake experiences. Notably, since most anthropological research has focused on adult and infant populations, we are beginning to understand how certain bio-socio-cultural ecological factors affect adolescent sleep in different contexts. Therefore, by providing fresh insights into the ecological bases of adolescent sleep and human sleep variation, these manuscripts contribute to broadening anthropological knowledge in this area.
Publications
Silva-Caballero, Andrea et al. (2023) Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health [2023] pp.448–460. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad040 Silva-Caballero, Andrea et al. (2023) Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous‑rural Mexican communities. Scientific Reports 13, 1058. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28330-8#citeas