Dreaming and the Self

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Dreaming and the Self
New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion

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Jeannette Marie Mageo - Editor

SUNY series in Dream Studies

Price: $59.50
Hardcover - 240 pages

Release Date: July 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5787-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5787-0

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 240 pages

Release Date: July 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5788-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5788-7

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Summary

Anthropological perspectives on dreams around the world.

Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self—particularly to subjectivity, identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of dreams in various cultures, the contributors explore how people as subjects actually experience cultural life, how they forge identities out of their cultural and historical experiences, how the cultural and historical worlds in which they live shape even their bodily habits and responses, and how the person as agent responds to and imaginatively recreates his or her culture. These essays demonstrate that dreams reflect tellingly on topics of great currency in anthropology, such as how people personally manage postcolonialism, transnationalism, and migration. Actual dreams are examined, including dreams of Samoan young people about race; of a Haitian priestess about vodou deities; of a Pakistani about spiritual teachers; of psychoanalytic clients in Los Angeles and San Diego about cars, witches, and sex; and of a young Balinese mother about a neglected dog.

"This outstanding anthology promises to propel the anthropological study of dreaming in important new directions. Indeed, researchers who assume that psychology and cognitive neuroscience are the primary disciplines of dream investigation will likely be surprised at the thought-provoking and critically acute discussions in this book." — Kelly Bulkeley, author of The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings of Dreams in Modern Western Culture

Contributors include Erika Bourguignon, Vincent Crapanzano, Katherine Pratt Ewing, Douglas Hollan, Waud H. Kracke, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Melford E. Spiro, and Michele Stephen.

Jeannette Marie Mageo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University and the editor of several books, including most recently Power and the Self. She is also the author of Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, Genders, and Sexualities.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Overview

1. Theorizing Dreaming and the Self
Jeannette Marie Mageo

2. Subjectivity and Identity in Dreams
Jeannette Marie Mageo

Part 2: Revisioning the Self and Dreams

3. Diasporic Dreaming, Identity, and Self-Constitution
Katherine Pratt Ewing

4. Selfscape Dreams
Douglas Hollan

5. Race, Postcoloniality, and Identity in Samoan Dreams
Jeannette Marie Mageo

6. Memory, Emotion, and the Imaginal Mind
Michele Stephen

Part 3: Self-Revelation and Dream Interpretation

7. Dreams That Speak: Experience and Interpretation
Erika Bourguignon

8. Dream: Ghost of a Tiger, a System of Human Words
Waud H. Kracke

9. The Anthropological Import of Blocked Access to Dream Associations
Melford E. Spiro

10. Concluding Reflections
Vincent Crapanzano

References

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

Anthropology
Dreams
Psychology-Cross-Cultural

41638/41639(JFB/MS/AV)

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