New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mageo, Jeannette; Sheriff, Robin E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000170399
• Artikelnr.: 60038561

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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