If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundStories come in many forms, from nursery rhymes and national anthems to poems and praise songs, and from the stories of science to the rituals of religion.They tell us where we come from, and where we belong; how to live and sometimes how to die.They hold us together, and they keep us apart.And all of them bring reality and the imagination together in what J. Edward Chamberlin calls a ceremony of belief. Drawing on his experiences in Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, Chamberlin takes the reader on an absorbing journey through communities and cultures around the world. |
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... course , is which language . The names of many aboriginal languages mean “ the lan- guage , " the one that anyone who wants to be civilized should speak ; just as the names of many native nations — the Inuit ( still called Eskimos in ...
... course , is which language . The names of many aboriginal languages mean “ the lan- guage , " the one that anyone who wants to be civilized should speak ; just as the names of many native nations — the Inuit ( still called Eskimos in ...
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... course , every now and then the stan- dards change , and a new kind of correctness comes into play ; but it has to prove itself against the old correctness , and it has to overcome what Northrop Frye once called " the majestic power of ...
... course , every now and then the stan- dards change , and a new kind of correctness comes into play ; but it has to prove itself against the old correctness , and it has to overcome what Northrop Frye once called " the majestic power of ...
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... course , but that would follow the same procedures , and meet with the same resistance , as at present . Nothing would change if under- lying title were aboriginal title . It would be a fiction . The facts of life would remain the same ...
... course , but that would follow the same procedures , and meet with the same resistance , as at present . Nothing would change if under- lying title were aboriginal title . It would be a fiction . The facts of life would remain the same ...
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