Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming
This volume offers a comparative cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam....
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This volume offers a comparative cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam. Taken together, these pieces constitute an important first step toward a new understanding of the differences and similarities between the ways in which different cultures experience the universal yet utterly unique world of dreams.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780195123364 (0195123360)
ASIN: 9780195123364
Publish date: 28-07-1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Esperaba que fuera mas acerca de la parte social y cultural que del analisis del sigificado de los sueños en las culturas que mencionan. Es, ademas, un libro bastante seco, por lo que me tuve que pausarlo en varias ocasiones.Fuera del capítulo de Freud -que es poco original- la información es intere...
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