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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... kind that children display , and we remark on how it is resonant with an openness to experience that the rest of us lose as the prison house of written language closes in upon us . But we also know — and here we brighten up a bit — that ...
... kind that children display , and we remark on how it is resonant with an openness to experience that the rest of us lose as the prison house of written language closes in upon us . But we also know — and here we brighten up a bit — that ...
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... kind of dissent , and with its determination to protect values that transcend the simple sum of individual preoccupations , values enshrined in the institutions of secular as well as sacred significance in the community , the tribal ...
... kind of dissent , and with its determination to protect values that transcend the simple sum of individual preoccupations , values enshrined in the institutions of secular as well as sacred significance in the community , the tribal ...
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... kind of moral order and then to enable a person " not only to see what is really there , but also to see what is really there . ” Unless we understand this distinction , he added , we will have difficulty understand- ing the Indian view ...
... kind of moral order and then to enable a person " not only to see what is really there , but also to see what is really there . ” Unless we understand this distinction , he added , we will have difficulty understand- ing the Indian view ...
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