Based on over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to cognitive anthropology, to perspectives in the humanities on mimesis, ambiguity, and metaphor, to current dream research in psychology, and to recent work in economic and political relations. Traveling the dreamscapes of a variety of young people,Mimesis and the Dreamexplores their encounters with American cultures and the identities that derive from these encounters.  While ethnographies typically concern shared social habits and practices,this book concerns shared aspects of subjectivity and how people represent and...