Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific
Roger Ivar Lohmann (auth.)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.
年:
2003
出版:
1
出版社:
Palgrave Macmillan US
语言:
english
页:
255
ISBN 10:
1403982473
ISBN 13:
9781403982476
文件:
PDF, 5.12 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2003
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