Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams

Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams
ISBN-10
0230339719
ISBN-13
9780230339712
Category
Social Science
Pages
215
Language
English
Published
2011-11-07
Publisher
Springer
Author
J. Mageo

Description

Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students in the northwestern U.S., this book contributes to recent research on dreaming and the brain in psychology and continuing research on dreaming and the self in clinical psychology and psychological anthropology. Dreaming Culture uses critical theory to understand power relations embedded in cultural models, a perspective often lacking in cognitive anthropology and in psychological studies of self and mind.

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