How Evaluating Dreams Makes History: Asabano Examples

Lohmann, Roger Ivar

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“…Ranulfo's premise was that his dreams could intuit future events. His implicit dream theories were similar to ones found in other parts of the world, variously characterized by anthropologists as “message,” “discernment,” and “generative” (Lohmann , ), “prophetic” (Tedlock , 164), “predictive” (Stewart ), “progressive” (Basso [] 1992), and “prescient” (Glaskin ; Jacobson ). Lohmann () makes helpful distinctions among dream theories that illuminate Ranulfo's beliefs and put them into cross‐cultural perspective.…”

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“…Lohmann () makes helpful distinctions among dream theories that illuminate Ranulfo's beliefs and put them into cross‐cultural perspective. Ranulfo's beliefs in the predictive power of dreams usually fell within the category of what Lohmann calls discernment theory , which holds that “dreaming entails an enhanced capacity for thought and awareness” (Lohmann , 231). Similarly, Ranulfo frequently referred to his dreams as a “guide” ( guia ) to his life, in the sense that this guide had greater insight (discernment) than would normally be attainable in waking life.…”

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“…Beliefs in dreams that foretell the future can have a direct impact on individual and group behavior, including economic decision making, given that such dreams and decisions are inherently concerned with future actions and events. For example, Roger Lohmann () shows how certain Asabano dreams in Papua New Guinea focused on practical matters like hunting, which, in a subsistence horticulturalist context, constitutes an important economic realm. As he notes, such Asabano dreams were taken seriously and put to practical use in guiding future actions: “Traditional dream scenario genres surrounding hunting, illness, and death were seized upon as useful and relevant in this way” (Lohmann , 235).…”

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Existential economics: Mexican-American dream strategies to predict and understand business outcomes

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2017

Economic Anthropology

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This study unites psychological and economic anthropology by examining dreams that predict future economic outcomes, specifically the dreams of a Mexican‐American owner of a corner store who faced a dilemma in 2007 about whether he should add a small bakery to his business. The study shows not only the ambiguity and complexity of the owner's dream interpretations but also, most importantly, how they led to profound reflections on economic value, risk, temporality, and his place in the transnational United States–Mexico economy. It thereby shows how broad social and economic issues are made meaningful at a personal, existential level through dream interpretations.

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“…One method asked about “emotions” in their dream; students usually responded by writing about their “feelings.” This shift in language was a stimulus to the ideas forwarded above. The students and I had what Lohmann () calls a “discernment theory” of dreaming: special insight is available through dreams and can be harvested by an able dream interpreter. At the semester's end, students filled out consent forms in my absence as to whether or not they would allow me to use their journals and or dreams analyses in my research (IRB # 5921).…”

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Dreaming and its Discontents: U.S. Cultural Models in the Theater of Dreams

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2013

Ethos

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Drawing together research in cognitive anthropology and psychology, this article argues that REM dreamers enlist metaphors associated with a cultural model in waking life to stage scenes that represent their recent and past problems with the model—be these ones of mastery or with the adequacy of the model for addressing life circumstances. These scenes provide a space where dreamers discover how and why a model is working badly and where they practice and experiment in order to move on to a new stage—both by better mastering models and by better adapting them. Dreamers’ difficulty with one model often involves problems with others. Dreams disclose these linkages. I develop this argument through ethnographic, life history, and dream data collected from U.S. undergraduates at a northwestern university. The models described herein, then, are regional but are also common in U.S. mainstream, middle‐class culture more broadly, particularly among young people.

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“…For example, some cultural theories depict the dreaming mode of imagination as so out of touch with reality that it can produce only nonsensical imagery (see Lohmann 2010). Certainly, the human imagination is capable of producing at least as much garbage as gold, and ideologies that warn people not to take whatever ideas come into their heads too seriously can help guard against dangerous delusions.…”

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Introduction: The Anthropology of Creations

Lohmann¹

2010

Anthropological Forum

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This introduction provides an overview of the contributions to this special issue on the anthropology of creations, and identifies some central concerns and definitions. Juxtaposing emic and etic perspectives, I derive several principles to guide the study of creations. Culture consists of creations, which are products of minds, and exist in three media: thoughts, behaviours and artefacts. Only by being expressed as bodily movement or material culture can creations be transmitted to others. Creations are embedded in webs of mental, behavioural, and artefactual associations that vary across individuals, groups, and time. Imaginations generate creations by representing and manipulating mental images, primarily through recombining and recontextualising elements of preexisting representations. Purposeful imagining is conscious, goal-directed, and subject to agents' executive control. Autonomous imagining generates imagery independent of conscious control, typically in dream or trance; its creations are often attributed to spiritual others. Innovation is the process of imaginative conception, realisation, social adoption, and cultural incorporation of creations. Innovation not only changes but also maintains living traditions.

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How Evaluating Dreams Makes History: Asabano Examples

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References 15 publications

Existential economics: Mexican-American dream strategies to predict and understand business outcomes

Existential economics: Mexican-American dream strategies to predict and understand business outcomes

Dreaming and its Discontents: U.S. Cultural Models in the Theater of Dreams

Introduction: The Anthropology of Creations

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