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Zusatztext "Dream Travelers is a fine contribution to the current renewed interest in the study of dreams. The volume presents the research of a diverse group of distinguished anthropologists, all with experience in the rapidly changing societies of the Western Pacific.They show how these transformations are strikingly reflected in the dream life as well as the waking life of individuals.There are new data and new ideas here. They will prove influential in the broader study of dreams and consciousness." - Erika Bourguignon, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University "My lasting impression following reading this fine collection of anthropological essays is of the dream as an alternative mode of cognition - as an important means of apprehending the world and engaging with others. Based on original fieldwork, each essay contributes rich ethnographic data to reveal the interaction between the apparently private inner realm of dreams, and shared, cultural phantasy systems. Lived culture emerges from this dynamic interplay. For all those with a serious interest in dreams, this book a 'must'. Furthermore, if there still remain any social or cultural anthropologists who feel that dreaming is a topic better left to the psychoanalyst, or dismissed entirely, this important collection will surely convince them otherwise." - Michele Stephen, Associate Professor of History, La Trobe University, Australia "Returning to one of the foundational problems in anthropology, the authorsof Dream Travelers explore the cultural significance of dreaming in a fascinating journey through Melanesia, aboriginal Australia and Indonesia. Powerfully evocative, the chapters are a pleasure to read in their own right while the collection as a whole propels our understanding of dreams in important new directions. Dream Travelers makes significant contributions to comparative ethnography, the anthropology of religion and the psychology of dreaming." - John Barker, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia"A fascinating work on dreams and religion in the Western Pacific." - Mary N. McDonald, Le Moyne College Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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 leadi...
