Visitantes oportunos e inoportunos de la noche pilagá. Derivaciones del sueño en la vida diurna

Abstract

This article is a study on three oniric narratives of the Pilaga (qoml’ek) aborigines in the Province of Formosa, Argentina. After some considerations on the advantages and limitations of Anthropology as a tool to study dreams, it stresses the need to find an approach that analyze dreams in terms of an experience employed by the aborigines to explore their social and ethnic identity concerning their interactions with White society. Finally, it considers how the Pilaga themselves explain the acquisition of songs while dreaming and how this allows them to define and validate individual behaviors in the context of deep cultural and religious changes.