Dreaming and the Imagination

Matthew D. Newsom is an Assistant Professor of anthropology in the Department of History, Sociology, and Anthropology at Southern Utah University. His research on the topics of dreaming and collective memories among young German adults has appeared in several edited volumes, including New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming (Routledge, 2020).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Dreams and the Imagination in Anthropology

Matthew D. Newsom



Part I: Dreaming Imaginaries



Chapter 1. Dreams, Narratives, and (Moral) Imaginaries

Jeannette Marie Mageo



Chapter 2. Attributing Dream Experience to Spiritual Others to Explain Dreamed Foreshadowing Among the Asabano

Roger Ivar Lohmann



Chapter 3. Imagining Berlin: Emotional Memories, Models, and Values

Matthew D. Newsom



Part II: Imagining Dreams



Chapter 4. Imagining Enlightenment: Pristine Awareness in Tibetan Buddhism

Bruce Knauft



Chapter 5. Dreams, Dreaming, and the Status of the Imaginary in Indigenous Worlding Practices

Sylvie Poirier



Chapter 6. Imagining Dreams in Art and in Anthropology

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod



Afterword: Dreaming and the Imaginal Spectrum

Robin E. Sheriff



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