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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Page 11
... settlers who arrived at the Cape of Good Hope were like that judge . They weren't sure the Bushmen were human at all , and they certainly didn't think the Bushmen could be hurt . Indeed , many settlers in the various " new " worlds to ...
... settlers who arrived at the Cape of Good Hope were like that judge . They weren't sure the Bushmen were human at all , and they certainly didn't think the Bushmen could be hurt . Indeed , many settlers in the various " new " worlds to ...
Page 12
... settlers ' title to them was based on religious classifica- tion - specifically , whether they were Roman Catholic ... settler and sometime priest , who insisted that the Indians were human and rational , and that their societies were ...
... settlers ' title to them was based on religious classifica- tion - specifically , whether they were Roman Catholic ... settler and sometime priest , who insisted that the Indians were human and rational , and that their societies were ...
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... settlers ? It doesn't make sense . For millennia , farming people have roamed around the world looking for new places and dreaming of the home they left behind , moving on after a gen- eration or so to other new places . And we call ...
... settlers ? It doesn't make sense . For millennia , farming people have roamed around the world looking for new places and dreaming of the home they left behind , moving on after a gen- eration or so to other new places . And we call ...
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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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