Anthropos: Anthropos, 61.1966

Anthropos, 61.1966

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Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

Persistent identifier:: BV043334262

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711748

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711748

Persistent identifier:: 1510221115730

Title:: Anthropos, 61.1966

Year of Publication:: 1966

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Title:: Bd. 61, 1966, Heft 3-6

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Title:: Dream and Charisma. "Theories of Dreams" in the Jamaa-Movement (Congo)

Other person:: Fabian, Johannes

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Dream and Charisma. “Theories of Dreams” in the Jamaa-Movement (Congo) By Johannes Fabian The importance of dreams in charismatic movements has been widely recognized. Two of the best monographs should be mentioned in this context- Sundkler, in his acount on “Bantu Prophets”, has stated: “In order to undei^ stand the religious life of leaders and followers in the organizations a stud} 0 their dream life is essential” (1961: 265). Burridge, writing on a cargo cult m New Guinea, went even farther, making what he calls the “myth dream a basic hypothesis in his study (1960). However, it seems to me that bo authors take the explanatory significance of dreams too easily for beim granted. They rely - as everyone else - on some vaguely defined psychoanalyt| c theory. Their findings, based on this unreflected assumption, sound accepta but neither of them has really tried to put the theory on trial. Both SundKLE * 1 * and Burridge are mainly concerned with the content of dreams - a vel ^ important aspect. But content comes in forms and we would expect them tell us more about the ways in which content is being formulated, interpr 0 ’ and manipulated by the leaders and followers of their movements. From xCl own experience with dreams in the Jamaa movement I have my doubts t any of them could serve as material for psychoanalytic interpretation. I s deal with this problem later on. Leaving aside psychoanalytic theory and the problems of its appli ca 1 the present paper tries to throw some light on the complex field of interm c * This paper is more an ethnographic contribution than a theoretical eSSc As it is being written in the field the author has little access to comparative literature- Field work on the Jamaa movement was made possible through grants from ^ Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, the Departm 6 Anthropology, and the Committee on African Studies, at the University of Ch lC I should like to express my gratitude to Fr. Bertien Peeraer for introducing me Jamaa, and to Robert Lagamma for help in editing the paper. to th e

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