Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams

ISBN-13: 9780367587895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Michael Heneise

Opis

This book explores the relationship between dreams and agency through ethnographic fieldwork among the Angami Nagas. It tackles questions such as: What is dreaming? What does it mean to say ‘I had a dream’? And how do night-time dreams relate to political and social actions in waking moments?

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Angami Science of Dreaming 3. The Phenomenology of Dreaming 4. The Corporeality of Dreams 5. The Authority of Dreams 6. The Landscapes of Dreams 7. The Public Life of Dreams 8. The reversibility of dreaming

 

O autorze

Michael Heneise is an American anthropologist exploring indigenous religion and medical pluralism in the Asian highlands. He is editor of the South Asianist Journal and co-editor of the Highlander Journal, both published by Edinburgh University. In 2017, he launched Highlander Books, an open access academic press that works in tandem with the journal. He edited Passing Things On: Ancestors and Genealogies in Northeast India (2014), and co-edited Nagas in the 21st Century (2017). In 2016, he earned a PhD in South Asian Studies from Edinburgh University, and is the founding director of the Kohima Institute for Advanced Studies, Nagaland, India.