1st Edition
New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming
Part I: Introduction
1. Defining New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming
Jeannette Mageo
2. The Anthropology of Dreaming in Historical Perspective
Robin E. Sheriff
Part II: New Theoretical Approaches to Dreaming: Implications for Culture and Identity
3. Metaphors We Dream By: On the Nature of Dream Cognition
Jeannette Mageo
4. Identity and Memory in Germany: The Defensive Role of Dreams
Matthew D. Newsom
5. Dreaming Bloody Murder: Women’s Dreams of Mortal Threat, True Crime Culture, and Metonyms of Gendered Vulnerability
Robin E. Sheriff
6. Dream Sharing, Play, and Cultural Creativity
Kelly Bulkeley
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
Roger Ivar Lohmann
8. Taking Dreams Seriously: An Ontological–Phenomenological Approach to Tzotzil Maya Dream Culture
Kevin P. Groark
9. Godly Dreams: Muslim Encounters with the Divine
Amira Mittermaier
10. Life is But a Dream: Culture and Science in the Study of Tibetan Dream Yoga and Lucid Dreamig
Bruce M. Knauft
Afterword: On the Varieties and Particularities of Dreaming
Douglas Hollan
Biography
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.
