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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... cultures are imprisoned in the present , uninterested in definitions , unable to make analytic distinctions and incapable of genuine self - consciousness . Oral cultures understand the world in magical rather than scientific terms , and ...
... cultures are imprisoned in the present , uninterested in definitions , unable to make analytic distinctions and incapable of genuine self - consciousness . Oral cultures understand the world in magical rather than scientific terms , and ...
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... cultures - including our own - have pro- tocols governing ceremonies , and why shouldn't he respect his ? Was he being a traitor by translating , to recall that Italian pun ... cultures , Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy . 22 THEM AND US.
... cultures - including our own - have pro- tocols governing ceremonies , and why shouldn't he respect his ? Was he being a traitor by translating , to recall that Italian pun ... cultures , Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy . 22 THEM AND US.
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Reimagining Home and Sacred Space J. Edward Chamberlin. languages and cultures , Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy . First published in England in 1869 , it is a textbook example of the clash between Them and Us , and although its ...
Reimagining Home and Sacred Space J. Edward Chamberlin. languages and cultures , Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy . First published in England in 1869 , it is a textbook example of the clash between Them and Us , and although its ...
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