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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... sometime prime minister , Benjamin Disraeli ( in the title of one of his novels , Sybil , or the Two Nations ) ... sometimes disastrous it can be . For Arnold , it took the form of a choice between a society with civil ceremonies ...
... sometime prime minister , Benjamin Disraeli ( in the title of one of his novels , Sybil , or the Two Nations ) ... sometimes disastrous it can be . For Arnold , it took the form of a choice between a society with civil ceremonies ...
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... Sometimes I live in town . Sometimes I take a great notion , To jump into the river and drown . Let's look at one song that may be less well known these days , called " When the Work's All Done This Fall . " It was written in the 1890s ...
... Sometimes I live in town . Sometimes I take a great notion , To jump into the river and drown . Let's look at one song that may be less well known these days , called " When the Work's All Done This Fall . " It was written in the 1890s ...
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... sometimes we want to know . I suggested earlier that Rastafarianism may be the only genuine myth to have emerged from settlement and slavery in the New World . It is a myth of dispossession and dislocation , of wander- ing and exile ...
... sometimes we want to know . I suggested earlier that Rastafarianism may be the only genuine myth to have emerged from settlement and slavery in the New World . It is a myth of dispossession and dislocation , of wander- ing and exile ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
LOSING | 74 |
REALITY AND THE IMAGINATION | 94 |
Copyright | |
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