If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground-Quality Guarantee

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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 helpus live our lives—and are at the heart of our current conflicts. We love and hatebecause of them; we make homes for ourselves and drive others out on the basis ofancient tales. As Ted Chamberlin vividly reveals, we are both connected by them andseparated by their different truths. Whether Jew or Arab, black or white, Muslimor Christian, Catholic or Protestant, man or woman, our stories hold us in thralland hold others at bay.

Like the work of Joseph Campbell and Bruce Chatwin, thisvital, engrossing book offers a new way to understand the hold that stories and songshave on us, and a new sense of the urgency of doing so. Drawing on his own experiencein many fields—as scholar and storyteller, witness among native peoples and acrosscultures—Ted Chamberlin takes us on a journey through the tales of different peoples,from North America to Africa and Jamaica.

Beautifully written, with insight anddeep understanding, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? examines why itis now more important than ever to attend to what others are saying in their storiesand myths—and what we are saying about ourselves. Only then will we understandwhy they have such power over us.