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  • Dreaming Culture

    Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams

    de J. Mageo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Theorizing Self in Samoa

    Emotions, Genders, and Sexualities

    Theorizing Self in Samoa develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa. As in many non-Western cultures, Samoan understandings of the self are more sociocentric--accentuating the social roles that people play--than egocentric--emphasizing individual, interior feelings and perceptions. Yet in Samoa, as in any culture, aspects of the self ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation: American Selves in Re-formation

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Based on over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to cognitive anthropology, to perspectives in the humanities on mimesis, ambiguity, and metaphor, to current dream research in psychology, and to recent work in economic and political relations. Traveling the dreamscapes of a variety of young people, Mimesis and the Dream explores their encounters with American cultures and the ... Leer más

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  • Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

    New Lives of Old Imaginaries

    Edición de Jeannette Mageo, Bruce Knauft ...
    Series Libro 11 - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
    The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores ... Leer más

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  • New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming

    This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and outside of anthropology. It incorporates new findings in neuroscience and philosophy of mind while demonstrating that dreams emerge from and comment on sociohistorical and cultural contexts.The chapters are written by prominent anthropologists ... Leer más

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  • Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

    Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

    Series Libro 8 - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
    How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities. ... Leer más

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  • Attachment Reconsidered

    Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory

    Edición de N. Quinn, J. Mageo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development. ... Leer más

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  • Spirits in Culture, History and Mind

    Edición de Jeannette Mageo, Alan Howard ...
    Spirits in Culture, History and Mind reintegrates spirits into comparative theories of religion, which have tended to focus on institutionalized forms of belief associated with gods. It brings an historical perspective to culturally patterned experiences with spirits, and examines spirits as a locus of tension between traditional and foreign values. Taking as a point of departure shifting local ... Leer más

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  • Decolonizing Culture in Pacific Literature

    Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai‘i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and ... Leer más

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  • The Interpretation of Cultures

    A classic work of anthropology that offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture isNamed one of the 100 most important books published since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement“As an anthropologist, philosopher, political scientist, literary critic, and all-around, all-star intellectual, Clifford Geertz helped a vast public make sense of the human condition.” —Robert Darnton, New ... Leer más

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  • Local Knowledge

    Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

    From the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York TimesOver his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground-breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the ... Leer más

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