If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground“We need to understand our stories because our lives depend upon it.” —Ted Chamberlin The stories we tell each other reflect and shape our deepest feelings. Stories help us live our lives—and are at the heart of our current conflicts. We love and hate because of them; we make homes for ourselves and drive others out on the basis of ancient tales. As Ted Chamberlin vividly reveals, we are both connected by them and separated by their different truths. Whether Jew or Arab, black or white, Muslim or Christian, Catholic or Protestant, man or woman, our stories hold us in thrall and hold others at bay. Like the work of Joseph Campbell and Bruce Chatwin, this vital, engrossing book offers a new way to understand the hold that stories and songs have on us, and a new sense of the urgency of doing so. Drawing on his own experience in many fields—as scholar and storyteller, witness among native peoples and across cultures—Ted Chamberlin takes us on a journey through the tales of different peoples, from North America to Africa and Jamaica. Beautifully written, with insight and deep understanding, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? examines why it is now more important than ever to attend to what others are saying in their stories and myths—and what we are saying about ourselves. Only then will we understand why they have such power over us. |
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... ideas , dazzling in their breadth and profound in their relevance . " WADE DAVIS FOR THE Finding Common Ground CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NON - FICTION FINALIST FOR THE PEARSON WRITERS ' TRUST NON - FICTION PRIZE J. Edward ...
... ideas , dazzling in their breadth and profound in their relevance . " WADE DAVIS FOR THE Finding Common Ground CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NON - FICTION FINALIST FOR THE PEARSON WRITERS ' TRUST NON - FICTION PRIZE J. Edward ...
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... , we can truly know who we are , where we came from , and what we and they may become . " -Thomas R. Berger , author of One Man's Justice and A Long and Terrible Shadow " Chamberlin dances between ideas , sources of ideas ,
... , we can truly know who we are , where we came from , and what we and they may become . " -Thomas R. Berger , author of One Man's Justice and A Long and Terrible Shadow " Chamberlin dances between ideas , sources of ideas ,
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... ideas , anecdotes , giving the reader flashes of insight and glimpses of the world that are both new and profound ... idea of home through storytelling . This enthralling book touches on religion , nationalism , literature and ...
... ideas , anecdotes , giving the reader flashes of insight and glimpses of the world that are both new and profound ... idea of home through storytelling . This enthralling book touches on religion , nationalism , literature and ...
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... idea of home. God has certainly not disappeared from the scene, and nor has Allah; the world seems to be getting larger, not smaller; and home is becoming more important, not less. Can one land ever really be home to more than one ...
... idea of home. God has certainly not disappeared from the scene, and nor has Allah; the world seems to be getting larger, not smaller; and home is becoming more important, not less. Can one land ever really be home to more than one ...
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... ideas and things, which is another way of saying he was talking about babbling and doodling. Building shape and meaning is what we do in our stories and songs. They are built on the arbitrariness of words and images, which is to say ...
... ideas and things, which is another way of saying he was talking about babbling and doodling. Building shape and meaning is what we do in our stories and songs. They are built on the arbitrariness of words and images, which is to say ...
Contents
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LOSING | 74 |
REALITY AND THE IMAGINATION | 94 |
To Be or Not to Be | 118 |
RIDDLES AND CHARMS | 160 |
CEREMONIES OF BELIEF | 192 |
Beyond Conflict | 198 |
Notes | 241 |
Permissions | 253 |
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