“It is hard to convey in brief the subtlety, delicacy, and care with which anthropologist Stewart pursues and historicizes the elusive treasures and dream-myths in which for two centuries the villagers of Koronos have invested so much. . . . His book is itself a treasure. Summing up: highly recommended.”
 

Choice

“In his extraordinary Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece, Charles Stewart offers a wholly new way of thinking about dreams in their social contexts . . . and Stewart has a gripping story to tell.”

Times Literary Supplement

“Stewart provides a localized view of modern Greek history that gets at different epistemologies and ontologies that may remain barely covered over by modernist historicizing practices. Its implications for understanding similar practices elsewhere, however, mean that this book will resonate well beyond the anthropology of contemporary Greece.”

Anthropological Quarterly

"If you are interested in dreams, this book will be a wealth of information."

Mindfunda

“This book tells a great story, thoroughly researched, lucidly narrated, and touched with the author’s affection for the people of Naxos. It is a book about the social reality of dreams, about the building of community through shared miracles and revelations, and about the economic and political consequences of faith and hope, played out as a contest between the people and their Church. This is a Greece not advertised to the tourist and seldom visible to them. It is history as ethnography of the past, a tale of causes and effects, carried down to current realities.”

James M. Redfield, University of Chicago