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
... would break the same the first opportunity . . . . I know that many mistakes arise here from erroneous accounts formerly made of Indians ; they have been represented as calling themselves subjects , although the very word 56 THEM AND US.
... would break the same the first opportunity . . . . I know that many mistakes arise here from erroneous accounts formerly made of Indians ; they have been represented as calling themselves subjects , although the very word 56 THEM AND US.
Page 57
... represented it in self - interested terms , he acknowledged the importance of the process of maintaining alliances and friend- ships . These were not casual words . They reverberate in eighteenth - century public and private discourse ...
... represented it in self - interested terms , he acknowledged the importance of the process of maintaining alliances and friend- ships . These were not casual words . They reverberate in eighteenth - century public and private discourse ...
Page 178
... represented on the quirt - one probably the owner ( carved and coloured in traditional Blackfoot style ) and the other representing either all those he had killed in battle or from whom he had taken horses , or else a single famous ...
... represented on the quirt - one probably the owner ( carved and coloured in traditional Blackfoot style ) and the other representing either all those he had killed in battle or from whom he had taken horses , or else a single famous ...
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If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground J. Edward Chamberlin Limited preview - 2010 |
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