Taking as a point of departure the recurring nightmares of a Yanesha boy, the author examines the dream theories and practices of Yanesha people of Peruvian Amazonia. Particular emphasis is placed on the conscious manipulation of actions taking place in nightmares. This practice, common to many indigenous peoples throughout the world, has become known in Western tradition as “lucid dreaming.” The author explores how New Age thinkers and entrepreneurs have adopted this and other connected indigenous dream practices by means of “simulation,” a mode of appropriating the magic of “Others” that, in the context of globalized neocolonial encounters, appears as the counterpart of “mimesis.” In this process of “cultural cannibalism” and commoditi...
Hanna Limulja book is built in direct dialogue with the Yanomami, a rich and sensitive ethnography t...
Many cultures, including the Nagas, give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, ...
This paperfocuseson the waythe ette, an indigenous group of north Colombia, conceive and experience ...
This article defends the idea that dreams experienced by ethnographers and their interlocutors can b...
This article defends the idea that dreams experienced by ethnographers and their interloc- utors ca...
The Zapara Indians in the Upper Amazon are on the verge of disappearing from the linguistic map. Thi...
Este artigo argumenta que, juntamente com os sonhos, a embriaguez é percebida pelos Índios da Améric...
The Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas possess a rich dream culture that postulates a clear two-way traffic bet...
The objective of the present work is to show how dream or musqhoy is understood among the Quechua in...
The article reflects on the way dream experiences have been addressed by anthropology, taking up my...
The paper describes socio-cultural theories of basic part of human existence to sleep and non-Wester...
En este trabajo se explora, desde una perspectiva antropológica, el rol de los sueños entre los Taks...
This article tries to outline the richness of the oral tradition of more than ten different indigeno...
An exploration of the author's experience of studying anthropology and shamanism in Buenos Aires
In a previous publication, I presented the Kuikuru version of an important myth from the Upper Xingú...
Hanna Limulja book is built in direct dialogue with the Yanomami, a rich and sensitive ethnography t...
Many cultures, including the Nagas, give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, ...
This paperfocuseson the waythe ette, an indigenous group of north Colombia, conceive and experience ...
This article defends the idea that dreams experienced by ethnographers and their interlocutors can b...
This article defends the idea that dreams experienced by ethnographers and their interloc- utors ca...
The Zapara Indians in the Upper Amazon are on the verge of disappearing from the linguistic map. Thi...
Este artigo argumenta que, juntamente com os sonhos, a embriaguez é percebida pelos Índios da Améric...
The Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas possess a rich dream culture that postulates a clear two-way traffic bet...
The objective of the present work is to show how dream or musqhoy is understood among the Quechua in...
The article reflects on the way dream experiences have been addressed by anthropology, taking up my...
The paper describes socio-cultural theories of basic part of human existence to sleep and non-Wester...
En este trabajo se explora, desde una perspectiva antropológica, el rol de los sueños entre los Taks...
This article tries to outline the richness of the oral tradition of more than ten different indigeno...
An exploration of the author's experience of studying anthropology and shamanism in Buenos Aires
In a previous publication, I presented the Kuikuru version of an important myth from the Upper Xingú...
Hanna Limulja book is built in direct dialogue with the Yanomami, a rich and sensitive ethnography t...
Many cultures, including the Nagas, give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, ...
This paperfocuseson the waythe ette, an indigenous group of north Colombia, conceive and experience ...