If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundDrawing upon the narratives of Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of essays explores the relationships between territories, peoples and the stories and songs that give meaning to our lives. |
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perpetual wanderers , the unmannerly buffoons ; the Indians who were
unmistakably Them — were always at home , defending their lands with a
freedom fighter's fierceness . In fact , in many of the stories and songs , cowboys
were portrayed ...
perpetual wanderers , the unmannerly buffoons ; the Indians who were
unmistakably Them — were always at home , defending their lands with a
freedom fighter's fierceness . In fact , in many of the stories and songs , cowboys
were portrayed ...
Page 37
Cowboys also never made a clear distinction between work and play , and even
their singing fell between . Most of them believed that songs , or at least the
sound of a human voice , helped settle cattle — a notion that is still current in
dairy ...
Cowboys also never made a clear distinction between work and play , and even
their singing fell between . Most of them believed that songs , or at least the
sound of a human voice , helped settle cattle — a notion that is still current in
dairy ...
Page 38
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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| Title | If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground |
| Author | J. Edward Chamberlin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 1857548493, 9781857548495 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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