Imprints of Dreaming

Heijnen, Adriënne; Edgar, Iain R.

doi:10.1080/02757206.2010.500617

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“…The study of dreaming has an illustrious if scattered history in anthropology (see Bulkeley 2001;Heijnen and Edgar 2010;Laughlin 2011;Mageo 2003;Stewart 2004;Tedlock 1987 and 1991 for reviews of the literature). Since the 1980s, anthropological studies of dreaming have tended to focus on emic dream theories and their links to indigenous ontologies (see, for example, Guss 1980;Kracke 2006;Peluso 2004;Poirier 2005;Smith 1998;Watson 1981); dream sharing as a situated (and often shifting) cultural practice (see, for example, Edgar and Henig 2010;Louw 2010;Mittermaier 2010;Pandya 2004;Price-Williams and Degerrod 1989;Qureshi 2010) and the ways in which notions of self, culture, and history are under construction and at play in dreaming (see for example Ceccioni 2011;Edgar 2011;Ewing 1990;Hollan 2004Hollan , 2013Kirtsoglou 2010;Lohmann 2003Lohmann , 2010Mageo 2003Mageo , 2011Mageo , 2013Mageo , 2015Stephen 1996;Stewart 2012).…”

Section: Interdisciplinary Bridgesmentioning

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Dreaming of the Kardashians: Media Content in the Dreams of US College Students

Sheriff¹

2017

Ethos

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The neurocognitive theory of dreaming posits that there is a specific neural network for dreaming and that dream content is continuous with a dreamer's waking concerns. This article extends this model of dreaming by arguing that the continuity principle applies not only to intrapsychic states; dream content also frequently indexes significant shifts in the cultural atmosphere. A prominent but understudied exemplar of such indices is the appearance of media content in dreams. This article underscores such media content as an area worthy of anthropological scrutiny and focuses on celebrity dreams among US college students as a site for theorizing the imbrication of dreaming, self, and culture. It is argued that celebrity dreams index recent and dramatic shifts in media ecologies (including embodied engagement with smartphones and formative encounters with reality television) as well as middle‐class young women's interiorized struggles over the expectations and exhortations associated with mounting a neoliberal and feminine public self.

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Dreaming of the Kardashians: Media Content in the Dreams of US College Students

Sheriff¹

2017

Ethos

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“…The largest number of memorable dreams were nightmares, night terrors, and sleep paralysis, followed by wondrous, healing and consoling, premonitory, repetitive, and lucid dreams. The dreamers' explanations about why dreams were memorable support current notions in anthropology that posit a lack of a radical separation between dreaming and waking reality (Heijnen and Edgar 2010) and that situations in dreams lead people to ponder possible scenarios in their daily lives (Lohmann 2010). The study also finds that the participants were receptive to local theories of dreams, that there were multiple and coexisting theories of dreams, and that they play a role in decision-making and in the dreamers' interpretation of their lives (Degarrod 2020).…”

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Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research

Degarrod¹

2021

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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I examine my dual role as artist and ethnographer in the creation of artworks including mixed-media paintings and installations. Drawing from four works that combine art making and anthropological research, I present, from the perspective of anthropology, the process of the creation of artworks as dynamic sites for creating and observing the emergence of knowledge, as well as the development of empathy between researcher/artist and participants. Art making provided the tools to unveil ephemeral subjects such as the internal images of exile, the traces of memorable dreams in cities, and the memories and legacy of World War II among Japanese Latin Americans. Art making was possible by using approaches from anthropology that emphasize the senses as a means of both acquiring and expressing knowledge, the view of the anthropologist as a conductor of experiences and events, and multimodal anthropology.

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“…For recent reviews of dreams as indices of sociohistorical change, see Heijnen and Edgar (), Mageo (), and Stewart ().…”

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Young Americans’ Dreaming in the Specular Age

Sheriff

Mageo

2019

Ethos

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Based on the analysis of recent dreams collected from college students in both the eastern and western regions of the United States, this article identifies a new visual mode of self‐making wherein young Americans imaginatively see themselves and others as images captured by and performing for a lens. Extending Lacan's notion of the mirror phase and building on Metz's concept of scopic regimes, we propose the concept of “specularity.” Further, we link specularity dreams to contemporary middle‐class child‐rearing practices and an increasingly obligatory engagement with technomediated practices. Specularity, we suggest, is a new mode by which subjectivities are reconfigured and brought into alignment with neoliberal styles of self‐representation.

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Imprints of Dreaming

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Dreaming of the Kardashians: Media Content in the Dreams of US College Students

Dreaming of the Kardashians: Media Content in the Dreams of US College Students

Pauses and flow in art making and ethnographic research

Young Americans’ Dreaming in the Specular Age

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