[Gandur] Mannfræðirannsókn á draumum

[Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir]

Miðvikudagur, 22. febrúar
Adriënne Heijnen: Dreaming sharing in Iceland. Some findings from a  
PhD study
Árnagarður, stofa 201 kl. 17.15

Adriënne Heijnen, doktor í mannfræði frá háskólanum í Árhúsum, heldur  
fyrirlestur á vegum Félags þjóðfræðinga á Íslandi miðvikudaginn 22.  
febrúar. Fyrirlesturinn fjallar um rannsókn Heijnen á draumum  
Íslendinga, en hún framkvæmdi vettvangsrannsóknir í Hrunamannahreppi,  
Reykjavík og á Akureyri á árunum 1994–2000. Áhersla verður lögð á þá  
þekkingu sem Íslendingar miðla með tjáningu sinni á draumum og þau  
mismunandi viðhorf til drauma sem finnast í íslensku samfélagi.

Fyrirlesturinn fer fram á ensku, en umræður á eftir fara fram á  
íslensku/ensku. Um efnið má sjá nánar í enskum útdrætti höfundar hér  
að neðan.

Nánari upplýsingar um starf Félags þjóðfræðinga er að finna á  
slóðinni http://www.akademia.is/thjodfraedingar/


>> Dreaming sharing in Iceland. Some findings from a PhD study
>>
>> Abstract
>> Dreams, Réne Descartes argued, are no sources of knowledge, because
>> knowledge can only be generated through the exercise of the  
>> intellect,
>> which occurs during conscious thought. Looking at conceptions of  
>> dreaming
>> in Icelandic society this perspective is challenged.
>> Through the activity of dreaming, people are thought to have the
>> possibility to render the world transparent, as Tim Ingold has put  
>> it.
>> This means
>> that dreamers do not withdraw from the world but engage with it,  
>> so they
>> can see into the world with a clarity and vision impossible in  
>> ordinary
>> life. In this way, the dream serves as an important source of  
>> knowledge on
>> events of the past, the present and the future.
>>
>> The perspective that views dreaming as a way of knowing can be  
>> traced in
>> Iceland in the written sources through a period of thousand years.
>> This does in no way mean that we are dealing with a static tradition.
>> Major changes can be traced in the ways dreams have been and are  
>> narrated
>> and interpreted, and in which social contexts they are used.  
>> Moreover,
>> this way of looking at dreams coexists in Icelandic society with  
>> other
>> theories on what the dream is and can do. My presentation will  
>> discuss how
>> knowledge is generated through dreaming and dream narration and how
>> different knowledge traditions coexist in Icelandic society.


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