Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece, Paperback by Stewart,...

Description: Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece, Paperback by Stewart, Charles, ISBN 022642524X, ISBN-13 9780226425245, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This illuminating study examines a group of documented social dreams on the Greek island of Naxos from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Some of their themes are correlated, strikingly, with the visions and discoveries recorded in th of Mormon: "dreaming of buried objects; digging as a religious practice... and the struggle to authenticate dreams and archaeological discoveries." The dreams are all essentially religious: about finding buried icons, building a "home" for the Virgin and so on. But they are also social reactions: to nationalization, economic depression, physical displacement. Parallel studies illuminate. These Naxos dreams "work through the problem of agency where a future must be faced using knowledge of the past." It is hard to convey in brief the subtlety, delicacy, and care with which anthropologist Stewart pursues and historicizes the elusive treasures and dream-myths in which for two centuries the villagers of Koronos have invested so much. As he concludes, they are, like too many of their countrymen today, "rich in the imagination of that which they do not have and virtuosi at negating their benighted present." His book is itself a treasure. The author may decide to include a new 1000 word preface. He will decide by 3/10 and submit the preface by 4/3.

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Book Title: Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Publication Name: Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece

Language: English

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Subject: Historiography, Mind & Body, Earth Sciences / Geography, Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Dreams

Publication Year: 2017

Item Height: 0.1 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12 Oz

Item Length: 0.8 in

Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Social Science, Science, History

Author: Charles Stewart

Item Width: 0.6 in

Format: Trade Paperback