Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBU TORS ———————— 鵽鵾———————— Erika Bourguignon is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Ohio State University, in Columbus Ohio, where she has taught since 1949. Her studies of altered states of consciousness (trance, possession, dreams) began with her fieldwork in Haiti (1947–48). This was followed by a large scale world-wide comparative study, supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. The results are reported in Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change (Ohio State University Press, 1973), Possession (Chandler & Sharp Publishers, 1976/1991) and numerous articles. Among her other publications is a textbook Psychological Antropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Differences (Holt, Rhinehardt and Winston, 1979). Most recently, she co-edited with Barbara Rigney a memoir by her aunt, Bronka Schneider, entitled Exile: A Memoir of 1939 (Ohio State University Press, 1998). Vincent Crapanzano is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has done field research with the Navajo in Arizona, with the spirit-possessed in Morocco, with whites in South Africa, and most recently with Fundamentalist Christians and legal conservatives in the United States. He is the author of numerous books and articles including The Fifth World of Forster Bennett: A Portrait of a Navaho (Viking, 1972), The Hamadsha: An Essay in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry (California, 1973), Tuhami: A Portrait of a Moroccan (Chicago, 1980), Waiting: The Whites of South Africa (Random House, 1986), and Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet’s Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation (Harvard, 1992). His latest book is Serving the Word: From the Pulpit to the Bench (New Press, 2000). Many of his articles and books have been translated into French, German, 223 Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, and Hebrew. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Paris, the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Brasilia and has been a recipient of many awards in the United States and abroad. Katherine Pratt Ewing, Ph.D. University of Chicago 1980, is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Religion at Duke University. Her areas of specialization include psychological anthropology, South Asia and the Middle East, with field research in Pakistan, Turkey and among Muslims in Europe. In her most recent book, Arguing Sainthood (Duke, 1997), she examined how the Sufi mystical tradition has been a focus of religious and political controversy in Pakistan and how this controversy plays out in the lives of individuals. She has also published numerous articles and the edited volume Shariat and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam (California, 1988). Douglas Hollan is Professor of Anthropology and Luckman Distinguished Teacher at UCLA. He is also a senior instructor at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He has authored numerous articles on the culture and psychology of the Toraja of Indonesia, and co-authored Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja (Columbia University Press, 1994) and The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle (University of Hawai’i Press, 1996). Waud H. Kracke is a hybrid anthropologist, with an anthropology degree from the University of Chicago and a psychoanalytic certificate from the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. He has done fieldwork with the Parintintin Indians of Amazonian Brazil, using psychoanalytic methods as well as anthropological ones. He has published a book, Force and Persuasion (University of Chicago Press, 1978) on Parintintin leadership using this dual approach, and has written many articles on Parintintin dream beliefs and practices and on their personal understanding of dreams. Jeannette Marie Mageo is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Professor Mageo has published numerous articles and books on cultural psychology, cultural history, and religion, as well as on sex and gender in the Pacific. She has edited several volumes: Power and the Self (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Pacific (University of Hawai’i Press, 2001), and Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind (co-editor, Alan Howard, Routledge, 1996). Her monograph, Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, 224 Contributors Genders, and Sexualities (Michigan University Press), appeared in 1998. She consulted for and appeared in a documentary made for Channel 4 in Britain, Paradise Bent: Boys will be Girls in Samoa. The film is framed by her historical interpretation of Samoan transvestism (Mageo 1992, 1996, 1998). It won a Silver Plaque in the “Documentary-Humanities” section of the Chicago International Television Awards and...