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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... look like wimps . Aboriginal people around the world will tell you they feel like strangers in the languages they now speak , in the livelihoods they have been forced to take up , in the literatures they are given to read . Many have ...
... look like wimps . Aboriginal people around the world will tell you they feel like strangers in the languages they now speak , in the livelihoods they have been forced to take up , in the literatures they are given to read . Many have ...
Page 104
... looks at the image of the great beast for a long time then sets it on dry cedar and looks up at me : What's an elephant ? he asks so I tell him of the elephants and their jungles . The story of the elephant graveyard which no one has ...
... looks at the image of the great beast for a long time then sets it on dry cedar and looks up at me : What's an elephant ? he asks so I tell him of the elephants and their jungles . The story of the elephant graveyard which no one has ...
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... looks upon the world , and Democritus , first of physicists and one of the greatest of the Greeks , chose to refer all nat ... look- ing to a final cause for an explanation of our phenomena ; but after we have accounted for these on the ...
... looks upon the world , and Democritus , first of physicists and one of the greatest of the Greeks , chose to refer all nat ... look- ing to a final cause for an explanation of our phenomena ; but after we have accounted for these on the ...
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