Anthropology of Dreams and Dreaming

S. V. Sokolovskiy. Dream Reality: The Unconscious of Russian Anthropology? // Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia. Vol. 46, No. 2 / Fall 2007. Pp. 10 - 33 DOI: 10.2753/AAE1061-1959460201

by Sergey Sokolovskiy

A review serving as an introduction to  special issue on the anthropology of dreams A review serving as an introduction to  special issue on the anthropology of dreams

REM and NREM sleep mentation differences: A question of story structure? (2001)

by Tore Nielsen

… 2003 Soñar, recordar y vivir con eso

by Anne-Gael Bilhaut

Published in: Estudios Atacameños, 26, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile : Universidad Católica del Norte, Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas, Museo R.P. Gustavo Le Paige S.J. : 61-70.

The ethnographic study of the Zápara case brings new and original data about memory building processes. The Amazonian... more The ethnographic study of the Zápara case brings new and original data about memory building processes. The Amazonian Zápara achieve knowledge about their past through dreams that also have a fundamental role in their daily life. We will see how their history is constructed by means of dream experiences, and how these are used strategically in the present. Dreams, furthermore, guarantee the cultural and ritual continuity of this group on the verge of extinction.

2007 Le réveil de L'immateriel: la production onirique du patrimoine des indiens Zápara (Haute Amazonie)

by Anne-Gael Bilhaut

PhD Dissertation, University of Paris X-Nanterre, 2007

2009 WHEN MUSEUMS ARE DREAMED: SUBJECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PAST IN AN AMAZONIAN COMMUNITY

by Anne-Gael Bilhaut

In: C. Crouch (Ed.), Subjectivity, Creativity, and the Institution: 87-96. Boca Raton (Florida): BrownWalker Press.

The Zápara Indians in the Upper Amazon are on the verge of disappearing from the linguistic map. In this paper, I... more The Zápara Indians in the Upper Amazon are on the verge of disappearing from the linguistic map. In this paper, I argue that the Zápara dreamers reconstruct the collective memory through their subjective dream experiences. I will explore how a few experienced dreamers are able to journey by dream to a “memory house”, where they can record their own memory or knowledge for the next generations, and receive the ancestors’ knowledge. Moreover, when Manari, one of the young leaders, came to the Quai Branly Museum (Paris, France) to discover the Zápara reserve collection, he provided an original example of the reacquisition of knowledge through conserved artefacts. Thanks to those unusual examples, I will show how the Zapara succeed in being recognized as a living and original people, facing new situations. The dream, as a tool for engaging in the return to the past, provides the historical elements that the Indians then re-inject into their present in order to construct new “traditions”.

The Oneirocriticon of Achmet in the West – A Contribution Towards an Edition of Leo Tuscus’ Translation

by Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

(forthcoming) in Studi Medievali, 2012

The aim of this article is to shed new light on the impact on Western culture of the so-called Oneirocriticon of... more The aim of this article is to shed new light on the impact on Western culture of the so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet, a Byzantine Greek dreambook, by focusing on an early Latin translation made by Leo Tuscus in 1176.

1. Introduction

2. List of Manuscripts
2.1 Existing Latin Manuscripts
2.2 Lost Latin Manuscripts
2.3 Vernacular Manuscripts
2.4 Oxford, St John’s College Library, MS 172

3. Evidence of the Impact of the Oneirocriticon in the West
3.1 Dante's eagle
3.2 Arthur's big toes

4. Conclusions

*. Appendix - transcriptions Oxford, Digby, MS 103



KEYWORDS - Leo Tuscus - Leon Toscan - Leone Toscano - Leo Pisano - Leo da Pisa - Leo Etherianus - Pseudo-Achmet - Achmet ibn Sirin - Sereim - De Somniis et Oraculis - Divination through dreams - Dream Divination - Divinatione per somnium - Dreams in Literature - Dreaming in the Middle Ages - Divinazione - Oneirocritica - Oneirocriticon - Digby 103 - Berriot - Byzantium - Dondaine - Purgatorio IX - Purgatorio 9 - Dream of the eagle - Dreams in Dante

Dreaming Arnold Schwarzenegger

by Louise Krasniewicz

Watson, B. 2007. Dreaming phenomena and palaeoart

by Ben Watson

Before Farming 2007/4 article 1 [online version]; 2007/4: Article 1: 81–90
[print version].

Dreaming phenomena provide an important means of inquiry into several aspects of palaeoart. This article proposes that... more Dreaming phenomena provide an important means of inquiry into several aspects of palaeoart. This article proposes that dreaming phenomena provide a rationale and basis for the selection of certain images for depiction by cognitively modern humans in the past in contexts devoid of ethnographic insight. The relationship between dreaming phenomena and palaeoart is explored, including the significance of transitional states between sleep and wakefulness, pseudohallucinations and subliminal imagery.

Anclajes para una semiótica de los sueños

by Ozziel Nájera

Elizondo Martínez, Jesús Octavio. Intersemiótica, la circulación del significado. UIA. México, 2008. pp 159-162