Introduction à une ethnologie du rêve chez les indiens Émerillon de Guyane française

Introduction to an ethnology of the dream among the Emerillon indians in French Guiana. The dream is not really acknowledged as a "social fact" by the majority of ethnologists who willingly delegate this aspect - which is more difficult to simplify, however, than the mythical, Imaginary aspect - to the psychoanalysts who are interested in traditional societies. But the example of Emerillon Indians proves this fact : as soon as one becomes interested In the unconscious elements of behaviour, the dream appears as a "comprehensive, social fact", a crucial fact in which all the levels of culture are involved, and not only the specialized areas of shamanism, myths and rites. We intend to show that the dream, far from being an epi phenomenon, can be, on the contrary, a privileged entry to the culture of a people considered In its own dynamism. Isn't this approach of a way of existing and thinking through imagination going in the same direction as indigenous theories themselves

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