Abstract

Defining new directions in the anthropology and psychology of dreaming / Jeannette Mageo -- The anthropology of dreaming in historical perspective / Robin E. Sheriff -- Metaphors we dream by : on the nature of dream cognition / Jeannette Mageo -- Identity and memory in Germany : the defensive role of dreams / Matthew D.Newsom -- Dreaming bloody murder : women's dreams of mortal threat, true crime culture, and metonyms of gendered vulnerability / Robin E. Sheriff -- Dream sharing, play, and cultural creativity / Kelly Bulkeley -- Out-of-body on the happy hunting road : dialogues between dreaming and culture in Papua New Guinea / Roger Ivar Lohmann -- Taking dreams seriously : an ontological-phenomenological approach to Tzotzil Maya dream culture / Kevin P. Groark -- Godly dreams : Muslim encounters with the divine / Amira Mittermaier -- Life is but a dream : culture and science in the study of Tibetan dream yoga / Bruce M. Knauft -- Afterword : on the varieties and particularities of dreaming / Douglas Hollan.