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This analysis opens with a historical review of dream interpretation, exploring the structure, theory, and function of dreams in primitive cultures and examining their predominant symbols, types, and forms. Focusing on Native American dreams, the study defines their significance to the individual and their relationship to the culture pattern.
This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
Because many primitive cultures assign equal value to both the fantasy and external world, dreams serve as their guides to both ritual and individual behavior. Trained in anthropology and psychology, the author of this work collected and examined more material than ever studied previously to demonstrate the key role of dreams in primitive society. Combining material from library as well as field research, this analysis opens with a historical review of dream interpretation, exploring the structure, theory, and function of dreams in primitive cultures and examining their predominant symbols, types, and forms. Focusing chiefly on Native American dreams, the study defines their significance to the individual as well as their relationship to the culture pattern.
A study of what happens when people dream of death in many different eras and cultures and what these dreams say to us about life.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.