Dreams in the Omkoi Karen Christian Context: An anthropological research combined with a theological study on dreams

by Hans Christoph Bar and Hans Christoph Bär

The present volume is dealing with the subject of dreams in an animistic culture, concentrating on the Karen people from Northern Thailand. The author has been a missionary in the area for many years. As he learned their language he could make an emic approach to their culture, so that instead of looking for Western-European concepts of dreaming he started strictly from the vocabulary the Karen use in this field of their respective local knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3957760801
• ISBN13: 9783957760807
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: VTR Publications
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"