Dreams That Matter : Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination

Dreams That Matter Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination

Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mittermaier, Amira, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press [2010]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Dreams > Islam > Religious aspects > Egypt > Case studies.
Dream interpretation > Egypt.
Dreams > Egypt.
Ethnopsychology
Egypt > Religion.
anthropologists.
anthropology.
cairo.
contemporary egypt.
contemporary history.
cultural history.
divination.
divine connection.
divine dreams.
dream diaries.
dream interpretation.
dream interpreters.
dream theory.
egypt.
ethnography.
freud.
historians.
imagination.
islamic revival.
islamic tradition.
material life.
middle east studies.
muslims.
nonfiction.
social historians.
social history.
social reform.
social science.
sufi group.
superstition.
western theorists.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • On Transliterations and Translations
  • Prelude
  • Introduction: Studying Dreams in Undreamy Times
  • 1. Dream Trouble
  • 2. Thresholds of Interpretation
  • 3. Seeing the (In)visible
  • 4. Poetry and Prophecy
  • 5. The Ethics of the Visitational Dream
  • 6. The Royal Road into the Unknown
  • 7. Virtual Realities, Visionary Realities
  • Afterword: On the Politics of Dreaming
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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