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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I grew up with this question , and I still think the answer is yes and Let me put this
question differently . Was one tradition truer than the other ? At the beginning of
The Odyssey , Odysseus the storyteller is described as a man of twists and turns
...
I grew up with this question , and I still think the answer is yes and Let me put this
question differently . Was one tradition truer than the other ? At the beginning of
The Odyssey , Odysseus the storyteller is described as a man of twists and turns
...
Page 191
Two hundred years ago , Wordsworth described this in his own version of the
barbaric and the civilized : A multitude of causes , unknown to former times , are
now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind ...
Two hundred years ago , Wordsworth described this in his own version of the
barbaric and the civilized : A multitude of causes , unknown to former times , are
now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind ...
Page 251
There is a good description of the legacy of Boethius in Jerry Martin's " Universals
and Particulars : A Tale of Two ... and Vine Deloria Jr. described the buffalo hunt
in an essay “ Ethnoscience and Indian Realities ” ( Winds of Change [ 1992 ] ) .
There is a good description of the legacy of Boethius in Jerry Martin's " Universals
and Particulars : A Tale of Two ... and Vine Deloria Jr. described the buffalo hunt
in an essay “ Ethnoscience and Indian Realities ” ( Winds of Change [ 1992 ] ) .
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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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