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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... reality of dreams . But perhaps we are not as far ahead as we think in negotiating the border between reality and the imagination . One of the people I met in Australia was Geoff Clark , whose Aboriginal home was in the southern ...
... reality of dreams . But perhaps we are not as far ahead as we think in negotiating the border between reality and the imagination . One of the people I met in Australia was Geoff Clark , whose Aboriginal home was in the southern ...
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... reality . Furthermore , and deepening the contradiction , for Ras Kumi Africa is not a metaphor for home ; home is a metaphor for Africa . This rever- sal of the direction of metaphor is vintage Rastafari , and for Ras Kumi it ...
... reality . Furthermore , and deepening the contradiction , for Ras Kumi Africa is not a metaphor for home ; home is a metaphor for Africa . This rever- sal of the direction of metaphor is vintage Rastafari , and for Ras Kumi it ...
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... reality , 3 , 153 , 222 ingredients that capture the , 177 locus of unconscious contradictions , 36 the power of , 149 , 156 , 238 putting form to fears , 62 , 201 " reality " constructed in / by the , 27 , 135 , 139 reality vs. , 32 ...
... reality , 3 , 153 , 222 ingredients that capture the , 177 locus of unconscious contradictions , 36 the power of , 149 , 156 , 238 putting form to fears , 62 , 201 " reality " constructed in / by the , 27 , 135 , 139 reality vs. , 32 ...
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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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