Jeannette Marie Mageo (1947 – February 12, 2023) was an American psychological anthropologist at

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. She was known for her anthropological work that focused on dreams and the self, attachment and childhood, gender and sexuality.

Education and career

Mageo was born in 1947. She received her B.A. at the

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, in 1970 and her doctoral degree, in psychological anthropology, at the

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, in 1979. Her dissertation was titled "The image and the soul. An Anthropological Critique of Jung’s Psychology." She subsequently worked at multiple institutions including

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, the

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, and the

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. In 1993 she joined Washington State University as an assistant professor and was then promoted by professor in 2003. Mageo died on February 12, 2023.

Selected publications

* 1996 ''Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind''. Co-edited with Alan Howard (University of Hawai'i). Routledge. * 1998 ''Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, Genders and Sexualities.'' University of Michigan Press. * 2001 ''Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Pacific''. Edited volume. University of Hawai’i Press. * 2002 ''Power and the Self''. Edited volume. Cambridge University Press. * 2003 ''Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion.'' Edited volume. State University of New York Press.Review of ''Dreaming and the Self'' * *

Honors and awards

Her 2022 book, ''The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation'', was awarded the Boyer Prize by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

References

Psychological anthropologists American women anthropologists Washington State University faculty Stony Brook University alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni American Samoan educators University of San Diego people 2023 deaths {{Academic-bio-stub 1947 births