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 63
... spirit that Aborigines had been talking about to me since I had arrived , a place where the dead were being disturbed ... spirits . And it pushes back against both the pressure of reality and the rhetoric of other people's imaginations ...
... spirit that Aborigines had been talking about to me since I had arrived , a place where the dead were being disturbed ... spirits . And it pushes back against both the pressure of reality and the rhetoric of other people's imaginations ...
Page 82
... spirits dwell . The dreamings are also about the responsibility of the Aborigines to these spirits , who return to the earth at particular places which are now sources of power as well as part of the landscape . Their descendants , the ...
... spirits dwell . The dreamings are also about the responsibility of the Aborigines to these spirits , who return to the earth at particular places which are now sources of power as well as part of the landscape . Their descendants , the ...
Page 105
... spirits remained had fallen into other hands , and the spirits wandered about . So , in a sense , did many of their descendants , those with whom I was sharing a meal around cooking fires set in old oil drums , with open fires for ...
... spirits remained had fallen into other hands , and the spirits wandered about . So , in a sense , did many of their descendants , those with whom I was sharing a meal around cooking fires set in old oil drums , with open fires for ...
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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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