Immaterial Objects: Things in Dreams
Mary Baine Campbell
The article presents an alternative world to that of discrete material objects, a "dream things." I call it because is organized and various, sensually perceptible, collectively recognized participated in, represented, theorized and, from the perspectives populous genre dreambook, early modern dream records, customs Iroquois Montagnais nations (among others) during late contact period, consequential. focuses on two most "thing-like" phenomena in cultural field dreams, dictionary individual about existing object. It moves chronologically medieval corpus dreambooks (as collated numerous manuscripts Somnium Danielis) instances new genre, personal record, order consider difference made by developing sense property (and dream) as private. concludes examining mid-seventeenth-century Huron Indian recorded Jesuit Missionary Paul Le Jeune: dreamer was instructed collect goods surrounding tribes well French missionaries her village — but latter refused give up their property.
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