Dreaming
Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations
Edited by Barbara Tedlock
The ten contributors to this book-anthropologists and psychologists-explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used by people from New Guinea to the Andes. The authors take a major step toward moving the study of dreaming from the margins to the mainstream of anthropological thought.
1992. 320 pp., 4 black-and-white illustrations, 2 appendices, notes, reference, index, 6 x 9
Contributors: Ellen B. Basso, Michael F. Brown, Gilbert Herdt, John Homiak, Benjamin Kilborne, Bruce Mannheim, William Merrill, Douglass Price-Williams, Barbara Tedlock
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—Douglas Hollan, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Vol. 177, no. 9
“A must for anyone intrigued by dreaming.”
—American Ethnologist, 1990
“This is a stimulating book with much to offer on a variety of topics … especially as a contribution to a more subtle understanding of dreaming as a human, and therefore basically cultural phenomenon.”
—Armin W. Geertz, Ethnos (1988)
“This fine volume is the product of an advanced seminar held at the School of American Research in 1982… [It] represents a true advance and a real contribution to the anthropological study of dreams. It also reflects the great variety of theoretical approaches and research methodologies currently used by American cultural anthropologists… [T]his book will prove stimulating to many researchers of diverse persuasions.”
—Erika Bourguignon, Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 4, no. 2 (1990)
“[This volume] represents a truly significant step toward a more adequate cultural approach to the study of dreaming.”
—John L. Caughey, Anthropology and Humanism Vol. 18, no. 1 (June 1993)
- Dreaming and dream research
Barbara Tedlock - Myths in dreams, thought in images: an Amazonian contribution to the psychoanalytic theory of primary process
Waud Kracke - Selfhood and discourse in Sambia dream sharing
Gilbert Herdt - The implications of a progressive theory of dreaming
Ellen B. Basso - Zuni and Quiche dream sharing and interpreting
Barbara Tedlock - A semiotic of Andean dreams
Bruce Mannheim - Robes of sand: order and imagery in Aguaruna dreams
Michael F. Brown - On classifying dreams
Benjamin Kilborne - The Raramuri stereotype of dreams
William Merrill - The Mystic revelation of Rasta Far-Eye: visionary communication in a prophetic movement
John Homiak - The waking dream in ethnographic perspective
Douglass Price-Williams