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022 _a0084-6570, 1545-4290
100 _aSwancutt, Katherine
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245 0 _aDreams, Visions, and Worldmaking: Envisioning Anthropology Through Dreamscapes
260 _bAnnual Review of Anthropology
260 _c2024
300 _a111-126
520 _aWhat does it mean to envision or dream a world into existence? Dreams and visions are often deeply personal and private experiences, but they also open up social spaces for worldmaking. From Australian Aboriginal “Dreamtime” to the ethnographic dreams of anthropologists and their research partners, many dreams and visions are entangled with the historical and analytical trajectories of anthropology. I set out in this article to stretch further the anthropological imagination about the kinds of dreams and visions that may emerge from any dreamscape. To this end, I show that the anthropology of dreams and visions is built on more than the interpenetration of dreaming and waking life, metaphysical questions, problems of communication and interpretation, active or passive dreaming, the powerful idioms that dreams afford for collective visions, or nightmares and metaphorical dreaming. Myriad dreams and visions also unfold as what I call cosmological visions that shape anthropology and vice versa.
650 _a Anthropology
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650 _a Cosmological Vision
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650 _a Dream
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650 _a Vision
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650 _a Worldmaking
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650 _aImagination
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856 _uhttps://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041422-022428
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