@article{1443954,
      recid = {1443954},
      author = {Mageo, Jeannette Marie,},
      title = {The mimetic nature of dream mentation : American selves in  re-formation /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) :},
      abstract = {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  identities that derive from these encounters. While  ethnographies typically concern shared social habits and  practices, this book concerns shared aspects of  subjectivity and how people represent and think about them  in dreams. Each chapter grounds theory in actual cases. It  will be compelling to scholars in multiple disciplines and  illustrates how dreaming offers insights into twenty-first  century debates and problems within these disciplines,  bringing a vital theoretically eclectic approach to dream  studies. Jeannette Mageo is Professor of cultural  anthropology at Washington State University. Her work  focuses on dreaming and the self, on child development, and  on how subjectivity, identity, and emotion evolve out of  cultural and historical experiences. Her manifold writings  on dreams show that cultural models tie the most profound  aspects of subjectivity to politics and public culture,  inscribing relations of privileging and marginalization  within the self that generate anxiety and resistances  registered and negotiated in the imaginary realm.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1443954},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90231-5},
}