Dreaming Culture

Jeannette Mageo is Professor in the Anthropology Department at Washington State University, USA. She is author of Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, Genders and Sexualities (1998) and Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams (2011). She has published many articles and edited numerous volumes in psychological anthropology and Pacific ethnography.

"Mageo provides fresh entree into relations of culture and mind through dreaming. Advancing both theory and method, she elucidates cultural shaping of the human imagination. Psychological anthropologists, cultural psychologists, dream analysts, and scholars of American culture will find an ethnography richly textured with insights into the inter-animation of society and personal experience." - Janet Dixon Keller, editor of Ethos, the Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Introduction: Dreaming Cultural Models Narrative Spectrums and Dreaming the U.S. American Family Cultural Complexes and Boyfriend/Girlfriend Dreams Holographic Dreaming and 'Moving On' in the USA U.S. Traveling Self-models Dreams as Cultural Remembering