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.
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,[2] in 1979.
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.
[3] Her 2022 book, The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation, was awarded the Boyer Prize by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.