If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Reimagining Home and Sacred SpaceStories give shape and meaning to people's sense of themselves as individuals, their cultures, their nations, and what is called "home." The stories we tell, whatever our ethnicity, race, or religion, both connect and separate us. If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? considers the hold that our stories--especially those about home--have on us and how we interact with others. |
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... cowboys . Bruce Chatwin certainly would have . Later , we will look more closely at the Indians . But what of those cowboys ? Were they really Us ? My grandfather was a cowboy for a while , running twelve thousand head of cattle in the ...
... cowboys . Bruce Chatwin certainly would have . Later , we will look more closely at the Indians . But what of those cowboys ? Were they really Us ? My grandfather was a cowboy for a while , running twelve thousand head of cattle in the ...
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... Cowboys worked and played with language , as they worked and played with everything else , creating a lexicon of technical terms lovingly twisted and translated into cowboy lingo : criollo was applied to cattle and horses as much as to ...
... Cowboys worked and played with language , as they worked and played with everything else , creating a lexicon of technical terms lovingly twisted and translated into cowboy lingo : criollo was applied to cattle and horses as much as to ...
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... Cowboys would boast about horses that " could pitch more ways than a Chinaman could write , " and many early cowboy songs celebrated bucking broncos , especially un- ridable ones like the Strawberry Roan and Midnight the Unconquered ...
... Cowboys would boast about horses that " could pitch more ways than a Chinaman could write , " and many early cowboy songs celebrated bucking broncos , especially un- ridable ones like the Strawberry Roan and Midnight the Unconquered ...
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If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Reimagining Home and Sacred Space J. Edward Chamberlin No preview available - 2004 |
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