Dr. Jeannette Marie Mageo
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor
Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests
Dreams, Self, Cultural Memory, Power, Spirit Possession, Historical Ethnography, Cultural Theory.
Courses
Self and Culture (ANTH 404); Historical Ethnography (ANTH 428/528); Advances in Cultural Theory (ANTH 507); Publishing and Professional Communication (ANTH 593)
Jeannette Mageo is a cultural anthropologist. Her current work focuses on dreaming and the self and on how subjectivity, identity, and emotion evolve out of cultural and historical experiences. 
She is committed to formulating a critical psychological anthropology. Since 1980 she has been involved in research and publication on Samoan culture, history, and psychology. Recently, she embarked on a new project collecting and analyzing Washington State undergraduates’ dreams. Gender is a consistent dimension of her published work. She has also researched and published on child development, sexuality, transvestism, prehistory, and spirit possession. She consulted for and appeared in a documentary made for Channel 4 in Britain, Paradise Bent: Boys will be Girls in Samoa, which is framed by her historical interpretation of Samoan transvestism and won a Silver Plaque in the "Documentary - Humanities" section of the Chicago International Television Awards. Professor Mageo is Editor of the Association for Social Anthropology’s monograph series with University of Pennsylvania Press.
Representative Publications
2005 (with
Linda Stone) Screen
Images and Concepts of Sexual Agency in Science and Social
Science. In Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
6(1):77-104.
2003 Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion. Edited volume State University of New York Press (SUNY), for their series on dreaming.
2002 Intertextual
Interpretation, Fantasy, and Samoan Dreams.
Culture and Psychology. 8(4):417-448.
2002 Toward a Multidimensional Model of the Self. Journal of Anthropological Research. 58:339-365.
2001 Dream
Play and Discovering Cultural Psychology. Ethos. 29:187-217.
1996 Spirit Girls and Marines: Possession and Ethnopsychiatry as Historical Discourse in Samoa. American Ethnologist 23:61-82.
1996 Samoa,
on the Wilde Side: Male Tranvestism, Oscar Wilde, and Limnality
in Making Gender. Ethos. 24(4):588-627.
1995 The Reconfiguring Self. American Anthropologist. 97:282-296.
1994 Hairdos and Don’ts: Hair Symbolism and Sexual History in Samoa. Man 29:407-432.
1992 Male Transvestism and Cultural Change in Samoa. American Ethnologist. 19:443-459.
1991 Samoan Moral Discourse and the Loto. American Anthropologist. 93:405-420.
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