What does it mean to envision or dream a world into existence? Dreams and visions are
often deeply personal and private experiences, but they also open up social spaces for …

summary In the midst of societal optimism, how do young men cope with the loss of a vibrant
future? Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia provides a vivid …

The anthropology of Central Asia provides socially situated, ethnographically grounded
analyses that complicate grand narratives of post-Soviet transformations in this understudied …

How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book,
based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan …

Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro, Denmark use
their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates the divide between …

People in Western societies have long been interested in their dreams and what they mean.
However, few non-Muslims in the West are likely to seek interpretation of those dreams to …

Names: Mageo, Jeannette Marie, editor.| Sheriff, Robin E., 1959–, editor. Title: New
directions in the anthropology of dreaming/edited by Jeannette Mageo and Robin E. Sheriff …

In Kyrgyzstan, as in the rest of Central Asia, recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of
distinctions between 'good'and 'bad'Islam. What is perceived as a growing 'religiosity'is often …

This article discusses spiritual healing in post-Soviet Kazakhstan with reference to changing
discourses about 'shamanic illness': a condition that afflicts the future healer. What had …

The neurocognitive theory of dreaming posits that there is a specific neural network for
dreaming and that dream content is continuous with a dreamer's waking concerns. This …