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The consciousness of dreaming, music and the world

Ruth Finnegan editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Wales Press

Published:15th Sep '19

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* Telepathy! The up -the-minute exploration of the context of this hot, best-selling, and highly controversial topic. * Distinguished experts writing accessibly for general readers as well as providing instructive and thoughtful material for specialists. * What do you know about the consciousness-enhancing properties of music? Find the answer here * The editor is a distinguished, very experienced anthropologist and has published very widely on anthropology. * Contributors to the volume include a number of prominent, well-respected anthropologists such as Tim Ingold and Barbara Tedlock.

A series of essays by experts on the enhancing subject of how our minds link together, now as in the past, through our experience of dreams, contact with the dead and dying, and listening to or creating music.This study of dreaming, death and shared consciousness develops a context that is humanistic, comparative and evidence-based in its engagement with the work of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology and the study of the imagination. It also reaches into current research on consciousness at the interface of neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, musicology, computer studies, psychology/parapsychology, literature and cognitive studies, in the process of drawing its content from a range of original writing from diverse disciplinary and cultural backgrounds.

This is a marvellous book, in more than one sense. Building on earlier work by her and others on storytelling, communication, and community, this edited volume by Ruth Finnegan follows the ordinary experiences of everyday life to venture into questions beyond the ordinary, in the domain of the mystical and the enchanted, as an inquiry about imagination and the human mind.

ISBN: 9781786830760

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288 pages