New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming

ISBN-13: 9780367479343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 238 str.

Jeannette Mageo; Robin E. Sheriff

Opis

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

Spis treści

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