Dream Travelers
ISBN: 9781403982476
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
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Subjects: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection;

In dreams, part of the self seems to wander off to undertake both mundane tasks and marvellous adventures. Anthropologists have found that many peoples take this experience of dreaming at face value, assuming that their spirits literally leave the body to travel, meet other spirits, and acquire valuable knowledge - with dramatic consequence for relationships, social organization, and religions. Dream Travellers is about Melanesian, Aboriginal Australian, and Indonesian peoples who hold this assumption. Several leading anthropologists contribute theoretically and ethnographically rich chapters, showing that attention to these peoples' dream lives deeply enhances our understanding of their cultures and waking lives as well.


JANE C. GOODALE Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USAELFRIEDE HERMANN Research Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology, University of Göttingen, GermanyDOUGLAS HOLLAN Professor of Anthropology and Luckman Distinguished Teacher at University of California, Los Angeles, Senior Instructor at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, USAIAN KEEN Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University, AustraliaWOLFGANG KEMPE Research Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology, University of Göttingen, GermanyWAUD KRACKE Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, USAROGER IVAR LOHMANN Instructor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, CanadaSYLVIE POIRIER Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Université Laval , CanadaJOEL ROBBINS Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USAPAMELA J. STEWART Research Associate in the Departments of Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USAANDREW J. STRATHERN Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USAROBERT TONKINSON Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia
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