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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Dream Travels and Anthropology
- 2 Dreaming and the Defeat of Charisma: Disconnecting Dreams from Leadership among the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea
- 3 Dreaming and Ghosts among the Hagen and Duna of the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- 4 Dreamscapes: Transcending the Local in Initiation Rites among the Ngaing of Papua New Guinea
- 5 Ambrymese Dreams and the Mardu Dreaming
- 6 "This Is Good Country. We Are Good Dreamers”: Dreams and Dreaming in the Australian Western Desert
- 7 Dreams, Agency, and Traditional Authority in Northeast Arnhem Land
- 8 Tiwi Island Dreams
- 9 The Cultural and Intersubjective Context of Dream Remembrance and Reporting: Dreams, Aging, and the Anthropological Encounter in Toraja, Indonesia
- 10 Supernatural Encounters of the Asabano in Two Traditions and Three States of Consciousness
- 11 Afterword: Beyond the Mythologies: A Shape of Dreaming
- About the Contributors
- Index