Anthropology of Dreaming

Luhrmann's article focuses on an "anthropology of the night." What have many anthropologists concluded about sleep:

ALL OF THE ANSWERS ARE CORRECT: contemporary Americans believe that seven or eight hours of uninterrupted is a necessity Europeans use to sleep in two blocks with middle-of-the-night wakefulness in between people in different cultures have different sleep habits people in many non-Western cultures have "punctuated sleep"—they often wake up during the night

In Robin Sheriff's own research, what famous family routinely pops up in the dreams of her students?

The kardashians

Waud Kracke, in his brief account of the anthropology of dreaming, says the in many non-Western cultures, dreams are:

a pathway into a parallel reality

modern Western societies..

believe that dreams are private events taking place in the mind. -dreams may be due to inner fears and desires

Sigmund freud

believed dreams reveal a lot about our inner feelings -a form of wish fulfillment

Jeanette Mageo

believes dreams often make use of culture models, the expectations and social scripts that make up culture cinderella model:

Daniela peluso

did field work among a group of people called the SE who live in the modern day region in PERU F.C.A.--many people sleep in hammocks and whole family often sleeps in same room. people often wake up in middle of night to talk amongst each other and do stuff. -Fathers to be usually have an encounter with wild animal in jungle, when they are about to kill it it says he dad its me. -Mothers to be have a dream about monkeys breastfeeding from their boob and it turns into a baby.

public culture belief of dreams

dreams are random images produced; they are meaningless and not real.

Robin Sheriff concludes that the rise of social media, and the need to promote a certain image of oneself to the world has had little impact on young people's dreams.

false

Anthropologists now believe.....

its more natural to sleep in 2 blocks, each being about 4 hours in length.

According to Luhrmann, how are nighttime habits among many non-Western peoples different from those of middle-class Americans:

non-Western people often sleep in the same room, or even the same bed

In what cultures are dream states considered reality—or even more real than waking life?

non-western; indigenous groups

Indigenous peoples

populations that are native, or original to a particular place. -the place we see in our dreams is also reality

According to to both Kracke and the video by Robin Sheriff, how do people in many non-Western cultures account for what happens in dreams:

the soul leaves the body and wanders

REM

body is essentially paralyzed, only the eyes move **most intense dreams occur during this stage of sleep.

Scientists about dreaming

some scientists believe that dreaming served as adaptive function allowing them to rehearse dangerous scenarios also, dreams serve as a memory conciliation.

ONTOLOGY

the study of, or beliefs about, the nature of being, becoming, existence and reality.

According to Robin Sheriff, in the U.S., there is both a public perception that dreams are not real, are meaningless, as well as a more private, individual sense that dreams can be taken seriously.

true

Dreams can occur at any time, but the most vivid, intense ones happen during REM sleep.

true

According to the video by Robin Sheriff, which idea can be used to understand the dreams of U.S. college students:

young people's dreams are often related to cultural contradictions and mixed messages