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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... written languages of civilized people . We heard the judge dismiss the Gitksan because they had no written literature . Sometimes this dismissal takes a more polite , but no less pernicious , turn . Societies whose major forms of ...
... written languages of civilized people . We heard the judge dismiss the Gitksan because they had no written literature . Sometimes this dismissal takes a more polite , but no less pernicious , turn . Societies whose major forms of ...
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... written word . Speaking and listening are simple and natural , we say ; while writing and reading are cultivated and complex . We wonder how people in these oral cultures recall things so clearly and how they re- flect on ideas without ...
... written word . Speaking and listening are simple and natural , we say ; while writing and reading are cultivated and complex . We wonder how people in these oral cultures recall things so clearly and how they re- flect on ideas without ...
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... written texts do for European societies . And , on the other hand , the central institutions of our supposedly " written " cultures - our courts and churches and parliaments and schools — are in fact arenas of strictly defined and ...
... written texts do for European societies . And , on the other hand , the central institutions of our supposedly " written " cultures - our courts and churches and parliaments and schools — are in fact arenas of strictly defined and ...
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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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