Sueño, realidad y conocimiento: noción del sueño y fenomenología del soñar entre los ette del norte de Colombia
Juan Camilo Niño Vargas
Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología July 1, 2007 DOI: 10.7440/antipoda5.2007.13 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Ethnography Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | The Ette, an indigenous group of northern Colombia |
| Key findings | Argues that the Ette conceive dreams as real events grounded in a noncorporeal activity through which the person enters an alternative mode of existence and perception. This allows dreamers to acquire culturally legitimated knowledge, and the paper contends that dreams are important to the reproduction of Ette social life. |
Abstract
This paper focuses on the way the ette, an indigenous group of north Colombia, conceive and experience dreams. For this purpose, some aspects of the concept of person, the notion of dreaming and the phenomenology of dream experience are described and analyzed. The article concludes that Indians conceive dreams as real events, based on a type of noncorporal activity in which the person begins to participate of an alternative mode of existence and perception. These characteristics allow to dreamers to take advantage of their experience to acquire culturally legitimated knowledge. In the same way, the paper allows to note the importance of dreams in the course of the reproduction of social life.