Abstract
Dreams can contribute much to elucidating how cultural conceptualizations of space are variously generated in a historically constituted terrain of power and knowledge. Our treatment focuses on dreams that deconstruct entrenched demarcations between inside and outside, between the local and the global world. Thus it focuses on dreams that elucidate space as a flexible and negotiable construction. These nexi between dream and space we will attempt to identify with particular reference to the culture of the Ngaing in Papua New Guinea, a group that has become well known through the work of Peter Lawrence (1964, 1965).
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Kempf, W., Hermann, E. (2003). Dreamscapes. In: Dream Travelers. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982476_4
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