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Bruce M. Knauft

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Life is but a dream

New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming October 8, 2020 Bruce M. Knauft

The thesis of my paper – evolving out the abstract submitted months ago – is that our lingering ethnocentric reification of “dreaming” as not just distinct from but the opposite of “waking” – dream consciousness versus waking consciousness – elides and occludes much power and value in and across mental states that include dreaming. There is arguably a strong connection if not continuum across...