If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundStories come in many forms, from nursery rhymes and national anthems to poems and praise songs, and from the stories of science to the rituals of religion.They tell us where we come from, and where we belong; how to live and sometimes how to die.They hold us together, and they keep us apart.And all of them bring reality and the imagination together in what J. Edward Chamberlin calls a ceremony of belief. Drawing on his experiences in Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, Chamberlin takes the reader on an absorbing journey through communities and cultures around the world. |
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... cowboys . Bruce Chatwin certainly would have . Later , we will look more closely at the Indians . But what of those cowboys ? Were they really Us ? My grandfather was a cowboy for a while , running twelve thousand head of cattle in the ...
... cowboys . Bruce Chatwin certainly would have . Later , we will look more closely at the Indians . But what of those cowboys ? Were they really Us ? My grandfather was a cowboy for a while , running twelve thousand head of cattle in the ...
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... Cowboys worked and played with language , as they worked and played with everything else , creating a lexicon of technical terms lovingly twisted and translated into cowboy lingo : criollo was applied to cattle and horses as much as to ...
... Cowboys worked and played with language , as they worked and played with everything else , creating a lexicon of technical terms lovingly twisted and translated into cowboy lingo : criollo was applied to cattle and horses as much as to ...
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... Cowboys would boast about horses that “ could pitch more ways than a Chinaman could write , " and many early cowboy songs celebrated bucking broncos , especially unridable ones like the Strawberry Roan and Midnight the Unconquered ...
... Cowboys would boast about horses that “ could pitch more ways than a Chinaman could write , " and many early cowboy songs celebrated bucking broncos , especially unridable ones like the Strawberry Roan and Midnight the Unconquered ...
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If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground J. Edward Chamberlin Limited preview - 2010 |
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