The Social Life of Dreams (Series: European Studies in Culture and Policy #12) - A Thousand Years of Negotiated Meanings in Iceland

Adrienne Heijnen

LIT Verlag

2013

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9783643902382

This book explores how dreams, remembered upon awakening, are turned into social action in a European society. Supported by ethnographic research of modern Iceland and examples from the historical literature, the book argues that the social meaning ascribed to the Icelandic dream has been a continuous part of Icelandic everyday life for a thousand years and is still being adapted today.