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A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values local authors a way of engaging withOur whole society may be obsessed with "family values," but as John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye opening book, most of our images of "home sweet home" are of very recent vintage. A World of Their Own Making questions our idealized notion of "The Family," a mind set in which myth and symbol still hold sway. As the families we live with become more fragile, the symbolic families we live by become more powerful. Yet it is only by