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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... thought and be- haviour . By the late eighteenth century the idea had strong support from philosophers and critics and even poets . William Wordsworth , for example , came to the conclusion that lan- guage is " the incarnation of thought ...
... thought and be- haviour . By the late eighteenth century the idea had strong support from philosophers and critics and even poets . William Wordsworth , for example , came to the conclusion that lan- guage is " the incarnation of thought ...
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... thought . Modern thought . It has become almost a truism that writing - alphabetic writing in particular - marked an evolutionary advance . Writing frees the mind for original , abstract thought , the argument goes , while oral cultures ...
... thought . Modern thought . It has become almost a truism that writing - alphabetic writing in particular - marked an evolutionary advance . Writing frees the mind for original , abstract thought , the argument goes , while oral cultures ...
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... thought of them as vermin and sought to clear them out by any means pos- sible . The story of the San Bushmen is one of the grimmest stories in the history of the last millennium , a holocaust whose numbers may not match those of the ...
... thought of them as vermin and sought to clear them out by any means pos- sible . The story of the San Bushmen is one of the grimmest stories in the history of the last millennium , a holocaust whose numbers may not match those of the ...
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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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