If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground“We need to understand our stories because our lives depend upon it.” -- Ted Chamberlin The stories we tell each other reflect and shape our deepest feelings. Stories help us live our lives -- and are at the heart of our current conflicts. We love and hate because of them; we make homes for ourselves and drive others out on the basis of ancient tales. As Ted Chamberlin vividly reveals, we are both connected by them and separated by their different truths. Whether Jew or Arab, black or white, Muslim or Christian, Catholic or Protestant, man or woman, our stories hold us in thrall and hold others at bay. Like the work of Joseph Campbell and Bruce Chatwin, this vital, engrossing book offers a new way to understand the hold that stories and songs have on us, and a new sense of the urgency of doing so. Drawing on his own experience in many fields -- as scholar and storyteller, witness among native peoples and across cultures -- Ted Chamberlin takes us on a journey through the tales of different peoples, from North America to Africa and Jamaica. Beautifully written, with insight and deep understanding, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? examines why it is now more important than ever to attend to what others are saying in their stories and myths -- and what we are saying about ourselves. Only then will we understand why they have such power over us. |
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... which I mentioned in the last chapter . In the beginning — that is , a mere two
hundred years ago — there was nothing at all in Australia . verter This was the
seafaring theology of the first Europeans Three: There Goes the Neighbourhood.
... which I mentioned in the last chapter . In the beginning — that is , a mere two
hundred years ago — there was nothing at all in Australia . verter This was the
seafaring theology of the first Europeans Three: There Goes the Neighbourhood.
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It is also the beginning of reimagining Them and Us in order to find common
ground in a world of conflict . Let ' s go back for a moment to Odysseus , suffering
many pains . . . heartsick on the open sea , fighting to save his life and bring his ...
It is also the beginning of reimagining Them and Us in order to find common
ground in a world of conflict . Let ' s go back for a moment to Odysseus , suffering
many pains . . . heartsick on the open sea , fighting to save his life and bring his ...
Page 223
We don ' t always hear tinkling bells , as Martha Demientieff did , but we know the
feeling from early in our lives , and once we have recognized it in our own culture
we can identify it in others . That ' s the beginning of moving beyond Them and ...
We don ' t always hear tinkling bells , as Martha Demientieff did , but we know the
feeling from early in our lives , and once we have recognized it in our own culture
we can identify it in others . That ' s the beginning of moving beyond Them and ...
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| Title | If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground |
| Author | J. Edward Chamberlin |
| Publisher | A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2010 |
| ISBN | 0676974910, 9780676974911 |
| Length | 271 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Modern / General |
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