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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Page 56
... described the policy : Now as the Indians who possess these countries are by numbers considerable , by inclination warlike and by dispo- sition covetous ( which last has been increased from the cus- toms in which the French have bred ...
... described the policy : Now as the Indians who possess these countries are by numbers considerable , by inclination warlike and by dispo- sition covetous ( which last has been increased from the cus- toms in which the French have bred ...
Page 141
... described a herd going over the ancient buffalo jump — called Head - Smashed - In — just across the way from where they stood . He went on , and on , and on , for over half an hour . Eventually , worried by Crowfoot's increasingly ...
... described a herd going over the ancient buffalo jump — called Head - Smashed - In — just across the way from where they stood . He went on , and on , and on , for over half an hour . Eventually , worried by Crowfoot's increasingly ...
Page 236
... described the first light coming as a quiet surprise over the mountains and down through the trees that sheltered the waters of the river ; the mist hovering over the deep tranquility of its upstream eddies and the pools below the ...
... described the first light coming as a quiet surprise over the mountains and down through the trees that sheltered the waters of the river ; the mist hovering over the deep tranquility of its upstream eddies and the pools below the ...
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