Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams

J. Mageo

ISBN 10: 023033735X / ISBN 13: 9780230337350

Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Okt 2011, 2011

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Posits that dreams are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models and offer unique insight into cultural psychologies. 215 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams
• Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Okt 2011
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 023033735X
• ISBN 13: 9780230337350
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students in the northwestern U.S., this book contributes to recent research on dreaming and the brain in psychology and continuing research on dreaming and the self in clinical psychology and psychological anthropology. Dreaming Culture uses critical theory to understand power relations embedded in cultural models, a perspective often lacking in cognitive anthropology and in psychological studies of self and mind.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jeannette Mageo is Professor in the Anthropology Department at Washington State University, USA. She is author of Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, Genders and Sexualities (1998) and Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams (2011). She has published many articles and edited numerous volumes in psychological anthropology and Pacific ethnography.