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The contributors to this investigation of dreaming in a diversity of African cultures and settings have each approached the matter with a respect for an indigenous discourse which does not necessarily subscribe to Western evaluations of the objective and subjective. The matter of dreaming is not so much seen as a psychological constant as ultimately sociological and historical. Dream discourse as a strategy deploys contingencies in the elaboration of social relationships and in the defence, restoration and promotion of identities. Dreaming is therefore prominent in such critical settings as sickness and healing, artistic inspiration and craftwork, election to religious office, conversion to Islam or Christianity.

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M.C. Jedrej is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, has written extensively on the Ingessana (Sudan) and the Mende (Sierra Leone), among each of whom he has conducted several years' field research. Rosalind Shaw is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and has published several articles based on her field research among the Temne (Sierra Leone) and the Igbo (Nigeria). She is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa.

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