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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... understand the longing for home that is central to the experi- ence of Rastafarians , and of so many Africans living around the world . Or of Jews hoping to meet in Jerusalem next year . Or of Palestinians living in refugee camps on ...
... understand the longing for home that is central to the experi- ence of Rastafarians , and of so many Africans living around the world . Or of Jews hoping to meet in Jerusalem next year . Or of Palestinians living in refugee camps on ...
Page 133
... understand what Toelken and Momaday are saying , we may have difficulty understanding not just the Indian , but any view of the natural world , including our own . And we will find it impossible to understand how stories and songs and ...
... understand what Toelken and Momaday are saying , we may have difficulty understanding not just the Indian , but any view of the natural world , including our own . And we will find it impossible to understand how stories and songs and ...
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... understanding of the power and the paradox of stories . If we can do this , I be- lieve we will be able to understand how the contradictions that are part of the art of storytelling are also part of the nature of our lives and our ...
... understanding of the power and the paradox of stories . If we can do this , I be- lieve we will be able to understand how the contradictions that are part of the art of storytelling are also part of the nature of our lives and our ...
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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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