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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... remark on how it is resonant with an openness to experience that the rest of us lose as the prison house of written language closes in upon us . But we also know — and here we brighten up a bit — that with this new phase of our lives ...
... remark on how it is resonant with an openness to experience that the rest of us lose as the prison house of written language closes in upon us . But we also know — and here we brighten up a bit — that with this new phase of our lives ...
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... remark is from his Two Treatises of Civil Government ( 1690 ) ; it is quoted by Jean - Jacques Rousseau in his ... remarks are in D'Arcy McNickle's Native American Tribalism ( 1973 ) . The quotation by Lewis Cass is from an arti- cle he ...
... remark is from his Two Treatises of Civil Government ( 1690 ) ; it is quoted by Jean - Jacques Rousseau in his ... remarks are in D'Arcy McNickle's Native American Tribalism ( 1973 ) . The quotation by Lewis Cass is from an arti- cle he ...
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... remark about lying is in his Theory of Semiotics ( 1976 ) ; and Dan Yashinsky's about faking it is from an ... remarks are from my conversations with him , and from the text of The Earth Most Strangest Man ( discussed in chapter 9 ) ...
... remark about lying is in his Theory of Semiotics ( 1976 ) ; and Dan Yashinsky's about faking it is from an ... remarks are from my conversations with him , and from the text of The Earth Most Strangest Man ( discussed in chapter 9 ) ...
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