Overview
- Brings together a diversity of approaches to studying dreams from across the humanities and social sciences
- Using over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to anthropological ideas about cultural models
- Offers an account of twenty-first century Northwestern Americans and those living on their fringes
Part of the book series: Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Mimetic Theory of Dreams
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Competing/Complementary Theories
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Mimesis and American Selves
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“This is an important study of dreams and culture, one that offers a compelling interpretation of how dreams work and what they tell us about ourselves, and about being human.” (Steven M. Parish, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of California, San Diego)
The book should be commended for its intellectual and theoretical achievement, for the way it explores its theoretical perspective in ways that make dream life palpable through rich and well-chosen examples and cases. I certainly found the dream accounts fascinating; I think students will respond as well. Very teachable, the manuscript is also a thought-provoking contribution to the scholarly and scientific literature on dreams. Mimesis wrapped around, or threaded through, cultural models offers a powerful perspective. There is a vital insight on almost every page.
—Steven M. Parish, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of California, San Diego
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation: American Selves in Re-formation
Authors: Jeannette Marie Mageo
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90231-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90230-8Published: 13 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90233-9Published: 14 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90231-5Published: 12 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 314
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, American Culture, Anthropology