In this video, I discuss how anthropologists can use dream data as a part of their work. In conversation with Professor Jeannette Mageo, we discuss her research on the nature of dreams, their impact on individual subjectivity, and how social scientists can use that to enhance their work.

Jeannette Mageo Website https://anthro.wsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/jeannette-mageo/

Upcoming book: The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation: American Selves in Re-formation

Recent publications: 2021 Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft (eds). Authenticity, Authorship, and Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries. Berghahn Press for the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) monograph series.

2020 Jeannette Mageo and Robin Sheriff (eds.). New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming, New York: Routledge

2019 “Mimesis and Developing Models of Self and Other.” Culture and Psychology.

2019 “Young Americans’ Dreaming in the Specular Age,” with Robin Sheriff, University of New Hampshire, Ethos.

2019 “Ambiguity as Dream Mentation: Super-masculinity and Ambivalence in American Dreams,” Ethos 47(3):326-345.

Dr. Jeannette Mageo Professor of Anthropology jmageo@wsu.edu

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