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This book has three parts. Part I develops a mimetic theory of dreaming. This chapter presents the theory and relates it to research on mimesis and on dreams in anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience. It also overviews the book, introducing the reader to the Northwest cultural context, as well as describing my data and dialogic methodology. I interpret dreams in dialogue with subjects rather than treating them in the classic positivist sense as “objects of study.”

“The most skillful interpreter of dreams is he who

has the faculty of observing resemblances” (Aristotle 1941).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Domhoff (2020, 103) disputes the idea that dreams are visual thinking because blind people too have dreams—dreams that are auditory, gustatory, tactile, and olfactory. The simulation–alteration sequence I see as the essence of mimetic thought takes its prototype from visuality but can be replicated in any medium.

  2. 2.

    For further examples of the mimetic commentaries, see Mageo (2017, 2018, 2019a, 2019b, 2019c).

  3. 3.

    Throughout the book I use pseudonyms to protect dreamers’ identity.

  4. 4.

    For related views of American culture, see D’Andrade (1984) and Strauss (1992).

  5. 5.

    See, for example, Cartwright (2010); Grenell (2008); Hollan (1989, 2003a); Fortune (1927); Fosshage (1997); Stephen (1995, 2003).

  6. 6.

    For further examples of dreams speaking to historical moments, see Bulkeley (1994); Mageo (2001a, 2002b, 2003a, 2003b, 2017, 2019b); Sheriff (2017, 2021); Sheriff and Mageo (2019); Newsom (2021).

  7. 7.

    Investigating how parents raise a child into a desirable adult, LeVine and Norman (2001, 84) discuss what they call “cultural models of virtue.”

  8. 8.

    On identities and dreams, see Cartwright (1991); Foulkes (1999); French and Fromm (1986); Globus (1989); Greenberg et al. (1992); Grenell (2008); Hollan (1989, 2003a, 2003b, 2005); Kohut (1971); Kokkou and Leman (1993); Mageo (2001a, 2003a, 2006, 2008, 2010); Reiser (2001); Ogden (2004); Stephen (1989, 1995, 1997, 2003); Westen (1994).

  9. 9.

    Chapter 3 will consider Freud’s idea of condensation and its relevance to my theory.

  10. 10.

    On memory consolidation in dreams, see further Barrett and McNamara (2007); Cartwright (2010); Kahn and Hobson (1993); Rasch and Born (2008); Stickgold et al. (2001); Stickgold and Walker (2004); Wamsley et al. (2012).

  11. 11.

    See further Windt (2010, 2015) on dreams as virtual realities that simulate many aspects of waking experience.

  12. 12.

    For further examples of early conflicts made likely by cultural models, see Mageo (1998, 2013, 2015); Quinn (2013).

  13. 13.

    For examples of such work, see Groark (2009, 2021); Hollan (1996, 2003a); Kirtsoglou (2010); Lohmann (2003); Mageo (2001a, 2003); Shulman and Stroumsa (1999); Stewart (2004, 2017); Tedlock (1987, 1991).

  14. 14.

    For many examples, see Mageo and Knauft (2021, 30).

  15. 15.

    On Western beliefs about expertise in modernity, see Giddens (1991). For an example of an anthropologist presuming to understand indigenous cultures better than culture members, see Mageo and Knauft (2021, 15–16).

  16. 16.

    See further Lohmann (2010, 231) on what he calls the American “discernment theory” of dreaming, which holds that dreaming potentially offers dream interpreters “an enhanced capacity for thought and awareness.”

  17. 17.

    On these methods, see further Mageo (2011).

  18. 18.

    One reason why, I suspect, anthropologists today avoid dreams is because they are now reluctant to “psychologize” informants in colonialized places, suggesting informants may have a psychology to which they themselves may not have immediate access and that a Western expert might better understand.

  19. 19.

    For similar attempts, see particularly Hallowell’s (1966) study of the Ojibwa and Groark’s (2021) work on the Quiche Maya and others summarized in Sheriff (2021).

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