Fields in dreams: Anxiety, experience, and the limits of social constructionism in Modern Greek dream narratives

American Ethnologist

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 877-894

  Stewart, Charles ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cognition; Dreams; Experience; Folklore; Greece; Psychoanalysis; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031319099     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1997.24.4.877     Document Type: Article

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