The Mehinaku Indians of Brazil make a deliberate effort to recall and interpret their dreams. The interpretations, most of which are based on a metaphoric relationship between the dream symbol and its meaning, suggest a concern with the physical and psychological boundaries of the individual. This pattern is part of a larger system of beliefs that reflects the relative absence of bounded social groups and a “person‐centered” system of conferring identity. [dreams, dream interpretation, nature of self, South American Indians]
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GREGOR, T. (1981). “far, far away my shadow wandered…”: the dream symbolism and dream theories of the Mehinaku Indians of Brazil. American Ethnologist, 8(4), 709–720. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1981.8.4.02a00030
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