Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.
Part 1. Overview -- 1. Theorizing Dreaming and the Self / Jeannette Marie Mageo -- 2. Subjectivity and Identity in Dreams / Jeannette Marie Mageo -- Part 2. Revisioning the Self and Dreams -- 3. Diasporic Dreaming, Identity, and Self-Constitution / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- 4. Selfscape Dreams / Douglas Hollan -- 5. Race, Postcoloniality, and Identity in Samoan Dreams / Jeannette Marie Mageo -- 6. Memory, Emotion, and the Imaginal Mind / Michele Stephen -- Part 3. Self-Revelation and Dream Interpretation -- 7. Dreams That Speak : Experience and Interpretation / Erika Bourguignon -- 8. Dream : Ghost of a Tiger, A System of Human Words / Waud H. Kracke -- 9. The Anthropological Import of Blocked Access to Dream Associations / Melford E. Spiro -- 10. Concluding Reflections / Vincent Crapanzano.
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"Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self - particularly to subjectivity, identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of dreams in various cultures, the contributors explore how people as subjects actually experience cultural life, how they forge identities out of their cultural and historical experiences, how the cultural and historical worlds in which they live shape even their bodily habits and responses, and how the person as agent responds to and imaginatively recreates his or her culture. These essays demonstrate that dreams reflect tellingly on topics of great currency in anthropology, such as how people personally manage postcolonialism, transnationalism, and migration."--Jacket.