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1 online resource (x, 325 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Jagdschloss Hubertusstock, in Markt Brandenburg, in September 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Dreams of interpretation in early Chinese historical and philosophical writings / Wai-yee Li -- Dreaming the self in South India / David Shulman -- The dreams and dramas of a jealous Hindu queen / Wendy Doniger -- Sharing and interpreting dreams in Amerindian nations / Barbara Tedlock -- Mythic dreams and double voicing / Dennis Tedlock -- Dream interpretation in a prosperous age? Artemidorus, the Greek interpreter of dreams / Christine Walde -- On the mantle meaning of incestuous dreams / Cristiano Grottanelli -- Idolum and imago : Roman dreams and dream theories / Hubert Cancik -- Dreams and visions in early Christian discourse / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Communication with the dead in Jewish dream culture / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Astral dreams in Judaism : twelfth to fourteenth centuries / Moshe Idel -- Dreaming analyzed and recorded : dreams in the world of medieval Islam / Sara Sviri -- The liminality and centrality of dreams in the medieval west / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- Engendering dreams : the dreams of Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost / Aleida Assmann -- The cultural index of Freud's Interpretation of dreams / Stéphane Moses. |
| Summary |
This work offers a comparative cross-cultural history of dreams. The authors examine a range of texts concerning dreams, from a variety of religious contexts (including China, the Americas and Greek and Roman antiquity) to explore the ways in which different cultures experience the world of dreams. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dreams -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Dreams. |
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Cross-cultural studies. |
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Dreams -- History -- Congresses.
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History. |
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Dream interpretation -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Dream interpretation. |
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Dream interpretation -- History -- Congresses.
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Dreams. |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison. |
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Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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Stroumsa, Guy G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dream cultures. New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98017107 |
| ISBN |
9780195123364 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0195123360 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195352597 (electronic book) |
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0195352599 (electronic book) |
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1280471441 |
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9781280471445 |
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0195123360 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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