If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Understanding the Power of Stories in Shaping Our Lives and the World

Name: If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Understanding the Power of Stories in Shaping Our Lives and the World
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ISBN: 9780676974911

ISBN-10: 0676974910

ISBN-13: 9780676974911

Edition: 2003

Authors: J. Edward Chamberlin

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“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…

Book details

List price: $24.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Publication date: 8/5/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.26" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction


Them and Us


Babblers


Doodlers


There Goes the Neighbourhood


Losing It


There’s No Place Like Home


Gaelic Is Dead


Reality and the Imagination


To Be or Not to Be


Truth and Consequences


Riddles and Charms


Riddles


Charms


Ceremonies of Belief


Beyond Conflict


Ceremonies Notes Permissions


Acknowledgments


Index