American psychological anthropologist
Jeannette Marie Mageo (1947 – February 12, 2023) was an American psychological anthropologist at Washington State University. 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 State University of New York, Stony Brook, in 1970 and her doctoral degree, in psychological anthropology, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 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 American Samoa Community College, the University of California at Los Angeles, University College London, and the University of Hawaiʻi. 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.
Honors and awards.
Her 2022 book, "The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation", was awarded the Boyer Prize by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.