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

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

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Culture, Mind, and Society

The Society for Psychological Anthropology— a section of the American Anthropology Association— and Palgrave Macmillan dedicated to publishing innovative research in culture and psychology that illuminates the workings of the human mind within the social, cultural, and political contexts that shape thought, emotion, and experience. As anthropologists seek to bridge gaps between ideation and emotion or agency and structure and as psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical anthropologists search for ways to engage with cultural meaning and difference, this interdisciplinary terrain is more active than ever. Series Editor Alexander Laban Hinton, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, Newark Editorial Board Linda Garro, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles Catherine Lutz, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Peggy Miller, Departments of Psychology and Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Robert Paul, Department of Anthropology, Emory University Bradd Shore, Department of Anthropology, Emory University Carol Worthman, Department of Anthropology, Emory University Titles in the Series Adrie Kusserow, American Individualisms: Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods Naomi Quinn, editor, Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methods Anna Mansson McGinty, Becoming Muslim: Western Women’s Conversion to Islam Roy D’Andrade, A Study of Personal and Cultural Values: American, Japanese, and Vietnamese Steven M. Parish, Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture: Possible Selves

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Elizabeth A. Throop, Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy: Immoral Individualism Victoria Katherine Burbank, An Ethnography of Stress: The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia Karl G. Heider, The Cultural Context of Emotion: Folk Psychology in West Sumatra Jeannette Marie Mageo, Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams

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

Jeannette Marie Mageo

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Dreaming Culture

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DREAMING CULTURE

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