New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming

This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology.

Autorentext

Jeannette Mageo is a professor of anthropology at Washington State University, USA.

Robin E. Sheriff is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

Inhalt

Part I: Introduction 1. Defining new directions in the anthropology of dreaming 2. The anthropology of dreaming in historical perspective Part II: New theoretical approaches to dreaming: implications for culture and identity 3. Metaphors we dream by: on the nature of dream cognition 4. Identity and memory in Germany: the defensive role of dreams 5. Dreaming bloody murder: women's dreams of mortal threat, true crime culture, and metonyms of gendered vulnerability 6. Dream sharing, play, and cultural creativity Part III. Dream cultures: theoretical and ontological perspectives** 7. Out-of-body on the happy hunting road: dialogues between dreaming and culture in Papua New Guinea 8. Taking dreams seriously: an ontological-phenomenological approach to Tzotzil Maya dream culture 9. Godly dreams: Muslim encounters with the Divine 10. Life is but a dream: culture and science in the study of Tibetan dream yoga and lucid dreaming Afterword: on the varieties and particularities of dreaming