Dreaming and the Imagination

Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-946-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Dreams and the Imagination in Anthropology

Matthew D. Newsom

Part I: Dreaming Imaginaries

Chapter 1. Dreams, Narratives, and (Moral) Imaginaries

Jeannette Marie Mageo

Chapter 2. Attributing Dream Experience to Spiritual Others to Explain Dreamed Foreshadowing Among the Asabano

Roger Ivar Lohmann

Chapter 3. Imagining Berlin: Emotional Memories, Models, and Values

Matthew D. Newsom

Part II: Imagining Dreams

Chapter 4. Imagining Enlightenment: Pristine Awareness in Tibetan Buddhism

Bruce Knauft

Chapter 5. Dreams, Dreaming, and the Status of the Imaginary in Indigenous Worlding Practices

Sylvie Poirier

Chapter 6. Imagining Dreams in Art and in Anthropology

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

Afterword: Dreaming and the Imaginal Spectrum

Robin E. Sheriff

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Reihe/Serie	Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-946-2 / 1805399462
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-946-9 / 9781805399469
Zustand	Neuware