Dreams As Ethnographic Tools [los Sueños Como Instrumentos Etnográficos]

This article defends the idea that dreams experienced by ethnographers and their interlocutors can be used as a tool to access knowledge and ideas about the reality studied. To prove this, the author offers a number of specific ethnographic cases in which dreams are involved in the processes of communication, learning and understanding the questions raised by each anthropological approach. At the same time facts of the author’s own research among muina and muinana indigenous peoples from the Colombian Amazon are presented. The author’s own dreams and some indigenous’ dreams opened discussion routes and uncovered concepts and discourses which were helpful in understanding reality and action upon it. Finally the author discusses how some life experiences in the research process, like dreams in this case, constitute a relevant contribution to the debates on contemporary challenges of the ethnographic work. © 2015, Asociacion de Antropologos Iberoamericanos en Red. All rights reserved.103331353Adorno, T.W., (2008) Sueños, , Madrid: Editorial AkalAlmeida, M., (2004) A Etnografia Em Tempos De Guerra: Contextos Nacionais E Temporais Do Objeto Da Antropologia, , Antropologia, História e Experiências. F. Arêas Peixoto, H. Pontes y Lilia Mori SchwarczAugé, M., La guerra de los sueños (1998) Ejercicios De etno-ficción, , Barcelona: Editorial GedisaBecerra Bidigima, E., Marín, P., Oralidad y Territorio en la Cultura Uitoto (1997) Revista Forma Y Función, 10, pp. 73-89Borges, J.L., (1976) Libro De Sueños, , Buenos Aires: Editorial Torres AgüeroBrody, H., (1986) Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier, , London: Faber and FaberCastillejo, A., (2015) La Imaginación Social Del Porvenir: Reflexiones Sobre Colombia Y El Prospecto De Una Comisión De La Verdad, , http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/becas/20150131091650/CastillejoFinal.pdf, Documento de Trabajo/Infomes. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, Accedido el 20 de junio de 2015Charuty, G., Destins anthropologiques du rêve (1996) Revue Terrain, 26, pp. 5-18Cheniaux, E., Os sonhos: Integrando as visões psicanalítica e neurocientífica (2006) Revista Psiquiatria RS, 28 (2), pp. 169-177Fals Borda, O., (2009) Una Sociología Sentipensante Para América Latina, , Bogotá: Biblioteca Universitaria, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades - CLACSOGalinier, J., Anthropology of the Night: Cross disciplinary investigations (2010) Current Anthropology, 51 (6), pp. 819-847Goulet, J.-G., Granville Miller, B., Part Five Apprentices hipand Research Practices (2007) Extraordinary Anthropology, , Transformations in the Field. J.-G. Goulet y B. Granville MillerLincoln: University of Nebraska PressGriffiths, T., (1998) Ethnoeconomics and Native Amazonian Livelihood: Culture and Economy among the Nipóde-Uitoto of the Middle Caquetá Basin in Colombia, , Ph.D. Thesis. St. Antony’s College, Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, Universityof OxfordHollan, D., The Anthropology of Dreaming: Selfscape Dreams (2004) Dreaming, 14 (2-3), pp. 170-182Huggan, G., Maps, Dreams and the Presentation of Ethnography Narrative: Hugh Brody’s ‘Maps and Dreams’ and Bruce Chatwin’s ‘The Songlines’ (1991) ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 22 (1), pp. 49-69Moncayo, V.M., (2009) Presentación. Fals Borda: Hombre Hicotea Y Sentipensante. En Una Sociología Sentipensante Para América Latina, , O. Fals Borda. Bogotá: Biblioteca Universitaria, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades - CLACSONiño Vargas, J.C., Sueño, Realidad y Conocimiento: Noción del Sueño y Fenomenología del Soñar entre los Ette del Norte de Colombia (2007) Antípoda, 5, pp. 293-315Nuttal, D., A Pathway to Knowledge: Embodiment, Dreaming, and Experience as a Basis for Understanding the Other (2007) Extraordinary Anthropology, , Transformations in the Field. J.-G. Goulet y B. Granville MillerLincoln: University of Nebraska PressPerrin, M.L., Pensar el sueño… y utilizarlo (1990) Antropología Y Experiencias Del sueño, , M. Perrin, Coord. Quito: Abya-YalaNeurological dreams (1996) Trauma and Dreams, , Sacks. O, D. BarrettCambridge (MA): Harvard University PressSteward, C., Introduction: Dreaming as an Object of Anthropological Analysis (2004) Dreaming, 14 (2-3), pp. 75-82Tedlock, B., The Poetics and Spirituality of Dreaming: A Native American Enactive Theory (2007) Dreaming, 14 (2-3), pp. 183-189De Viveiros Castro, E., Os Pronomes Cosmológicos e O Perspectivismo Ameríndio (1996) Mana, 2 (2), pp. 115-144Wax, L.M., Dream Sharing as Social Practice (2007) Dreaming, 14 (2-3), pp. 83-93Živković, M., Sueños dentro-fuera: Algunos usos del sueño en la teoría social y la investigación etnográfica (2006) Revista De Antropología Social, 15, pp. 139-17