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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... painted them . He also painted the great herds of buffalo , the riding of broncs and the roping of cattle , the cow camps and round - ups and stampedes . He painted the people of the plains , not only the ranchers and the rodeo cowboys ...
... painted them . He also painted the great herds of buffalo , the riding of broncs and the roping of cattle , the cow camps and round - ups and stampedes . He painted the people of the plains , not only the ranchers and the rodeo cowboys ...
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... natural world . But he always insisted that it was art that made him love nature , and that he painted not because of his pastoral life but because of the paintings he saw of it . The paintings showed him how to TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES 139.
... natural world . But he always insisted that it was art that made him love nature , and that he painted not because of his pastoral life but because of the paintings he saw of it . The paintings showed him how to TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES 139.
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... painted horses on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in France thirty thousand years ago were not painting horses and buf- falo ; they were painting paintings of horses and buffalo . They knew all about the difference between reality and the ...
... painted horses on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in France thirty thousand years ago were not painting horses and buf- falo ; they were painting paintings of horses and buffalo . They knew all about the difference between reality and the ...
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