“In Their Dream They Go”

Sleep, although often mentioned in ethnographic accounts of Aboriginal Australian societies, has rarely been a focus, with a few notable exceptions (Berndt 1940; Burbank 2006; Musharbash 2008, in press, and this book). One can readily speculate that reasons for this might include a view of sleep as a biological necessity, a state of being that interrupts and punctuates waking life (see Goldberg, this book), not a feature of human experience worthy of investigation in its own right. Thus, although the absence of such accounts may be partly accounted for by concerns about the intimacies of sleep, or by the difficulties involved in investigating sleep, some of which are analogous to researching dreams (e.g., see Lohmann 2003c, 6), it is just as likely that sleep constitutes an "ethnographic blind spot," as Peterson and Rigsby (1998, 2) once described marine tenure in Australia.KeywordsOrdinary PeopleAustralian ContextEthnographic AccountDream RecallNautical ChartThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

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