Dreaming and the Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Redaktion: Newsom, Matthew D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination. Although Western perspectives tend to cast these as personal experiences contained within individual minds, each contributor explores diverse cultural and historical contexts to demonstrate how these behaviours are always in some sense cultural and influenced by social others. The cross-cultural approach suggests theoretical flexibility and expands the study of imagination across multiple disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805399476
• Artikelnr.: 72259465

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. Newsom is an Assistant Professor of anthropology in the Department of History, Sociology, and Anthropology at Southern Utah University. His research on the topics of dreaming and collective memories among young German adults has appeared in several edited volumes, including New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming (Routledge, 2020).