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Roger Ivar . Ed(S): Lohmann - Dream Travelers - 9781403963307 - V9781403963307
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Dream Travelers

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Description for Dream Travelers Paperback. Editor(s): Lohmann, Roger Ivar. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MK; GTB; JHMC; JMTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 335.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403963307
SKU
V9781403963307
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About Roger Ivar . Ed(S): Lohmann
JANE C. GOODALE Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA ELFRIEDE HERMANN Research Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology, University of Göttingen, Germany DOUGLAS HOLLAN Professor of Anthropology and Luckman Distinguished Teacher at University of California, Los Angeles, Senior Instructor at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, USA IAN KEEN Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology ... Read more

Reviews for Dream Travelers
"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 ... Read more

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