Dream singers The African American Way with Dreams 1st Edition by Anthony Shafton ISBN 0471395358 9780471395355

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ISBN 10: 0471395358

ISBN 13: 9780471395355 

Author: Anthony Shafton

Advance Praise for Dream-Singers “You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to anyone who has ever thought about his or her dreams. It’s a wonderful adventure and I highly recommend it.”-Clarence Major, author of Configurations and Juba to Jive Acclaim for Dream Reader also by Anthony Shafton “A book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it.”-Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Author of Working with Dreams and Dream Telepathy “Breathtaking . . . the single most complete and thorough analysis of contemporary dream theories yet written . . . Shafton has a keen sense for what people most want to know about dreams, and an admirable ability to explain difficult concepts without oversimplifying them.”-Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., Past President, The Association for the Study of Dreams, Author of The Wilderness of Dreams

Table of contents:

Part 1: A Reverence for Dreams

1. Through the Porthole of Dreams

Part 2: The African Connection
2. Dream Is What We Do: Influences from Africa

Part 3: The Fabric of the Dream Heritage
3. Grandmother Will Come: Ancestor Visitation Dreams
4. That Bolt of Lightning: Predictive Dreams
5. We Got the Signs: Signs in Dreams
6. Blackonomics: Playing the Numbers from Dreams
7. I Knew You Were Gonna Say That: Deja Vu and Predictive Dreams
8. The Underbeat: Dreaming and Other States of Consciousness
9. Didn’t Bother Me None: Experiences at the Edge of Dreaming
10. Take Me Through: Dreams and Dreamlike States in Religion
11. All Life Passes Through Water: Dreams in Hoodoo
12. Little Stirrups: Witches Riding You and Sleep Paralysis

Part 4: Dreams About Race
13. The Same Old Nightmare: Race in Dreams

Part 5: Dream Sharing and the Future
14. What My Mother Does: Dream Sharing and the Future

Appendices
Appendix A: Index of Interviewees
Appendix B: Traditional African American Dream Signs
Appendix C: Technical Details about Policy and Numbers Gambling
Appendix D: Dream Books for Policy and Numbers Consulted for Chapter 6
Appendix E: Dream Book Authors and Publishers

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