Culture, Mind, and Society

Mageo, Jeannette Marie

Based on over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to cognitive anthropology, to perspectives in the humanities on mimesis, ambiguity, and metaphor, to current dream research in psychology, and to recent work in economic and political relations. Traveling the dreamscapes of a variety of young people, Mimesis and the Dream explores their encounters with American cultures and the identities that derive from these encounters.  While ethnographies typically concern shared social habits and practices, this book concerns shared aspects of subjectivity and how people represent and think about them in dreams.  Each chapter grounds theory in actual cases.  It will be compelling to scholars in multiple disciplines and illustrates how dreaming offers insights into twenty-first century debates and problems within these disciplines, bringing a vital theoretically eclectic approach to dream studies.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2022-01-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030902308

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90231-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 314