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Dream interpretation among the mapuche indians of Chile / Lydia Nakashima Degarrod ; Proessor Johannes Wilbert.

Por: Colaborador(es): Idioma: Inglés Los Angeles, California : University of California , 1989Descripción: xiii, 238 hojas : figurasTipo de contenido:
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Contenidos:
CHAPTER 1. The Study of Dreams.
CHAPTER 2. The Mapuche of Chile.
CHAPTER 3. Mapuche Dream Theory.
CHAPTER 4. The Interpretation of Dreams.
CHAPTER 5. Wesa Peuma.
CHAPTER 6. Kume Peuma.
CHAPTER 7. Effects of the mapuche Dream Interpretation Process.
CHAPTER 8. Discussion and Conclusions.
Nota de disertación: Título de : (Doctor en Filosofía en Antropología).-- University of California, 1989. Resumen: Presented is an ethnographic study of the process of dream interpretation among the Mapuche Indians of Chile. An attempt is made to reconstruct the native theory and the reationale involved in the dream interpretation process. Specifically, the study focuses on the ways in which this process affects Mapuche thinking and behavior. Methods used in this study included participant-observation of daily dream interpretation of four Mapuche families and open-ended interviewa about the process of interpretation with the members and with shamans. The main data consist of three hundred and eighty dreams and their native interpretations collected over a period of seventeen months. Of these dreams, two hundred-and-forty were gathered in their natural setting. This dissertation finds that the Mapuche process of dream interpretation is a cultural system of meaning which influences thinking and behavior. It is not only through the dream proper that the Mapuche are affected in their thinking and behavior, but also through the act interpreting the dream. By the way of four levels or modes of analysis, the dream is integrated into all aspects of culture, reaching across time and space and connecting individuals in the dreamer’s social milieu. Mapuche dream interpretation is an open system, that is, dreamers can modify and manipulate the meanings of the dreams according to their own specie social context. The major objetives of this system are: (1) to provide information about the actions of others on the dreamer, (2) to guide decisions and a rationale for one’s actions, and (3) to act as channel of communication among people and between mankind and the Supernaturals.
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Título de : (Doctor en Filosofía en Antropología).-- University of California, 1989.

Bibliografía : hojas 224-238.

CHAPTER 1. The Study of Dreams.

CHAPTER 2. The Mapuche of Chile.

CHAPTER 3. Mapuche Dream Theory.

CHAPTER 4. The Interpretation of Dreams.

CHAPTER 5. Wesa Peuma.

CHAPTER 6. Kume Peuma.

CHAPTER 7. Effects of the mapuche Dream Interpretation Process.

CHAPTER 8. Discussion and Conclusions.

Presented is an ethnographic study of the process of dream interpretation among the Mapuche Indians of Chile. An attempt is made to reconstruct the native theory and the reationale involved in the dream interpretation process. Specifically, the study focuses on the ways in which this process affects Mapuche thinking and behavior.
Methods used in this study included participant-observation of daily dream interpretation of four Mapuche families and open-ended interviewa about the process of interpretation with the members and with shamans. The main data consist of three hundred and eighty dreams and their native interpretations collected over a period of seventeen months. Of these dreams, two hundred-and-forty were gathered in their natural setting.
This dissertation finds that the Mapuche process of dream interpretation is a cultural system of meaning which influences thinking and behavior. It is not only through the dream proper that the Mapuche are affected in their thinking and behavior, but also through the act interpreting the dream. By the way of four levels or modes of analysis, the dream is integrated into all aspects of culture, reaching across time and space and connecting individuals in the dreamer’s social milieu. Mapuche dream interpretation is an open system, that is, dreamers can modify and manipulate the meanings of the dreams according to their own specie social context.
The major objetives of this system are: (1) to provide information about the actions of others on the dreamer, (2) to guide decisions and a rationale for one’s actions, and (3) to act as channel of communication among people and between mankind and the Supernaturals.