New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming

Herausgeber: Mageo, Jeannette; Sheriff, Robin E.

• Gebundenes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780367479343
• ISBN-10: 0367479346
• Artikelnr.: 59985015

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