Sand Talk
How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
by Tyson Yunkaporta
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Pub Date Jun 25 2020 | Archive Date Apr 01 2020
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Description
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.
Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
Sand Talk provides a template for living. It’s about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It’s about how we learn and how we remember. It’s about talking to everybody and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things.
Most of all it’s about Indigenous thinking, and how it can save the world.
Advance Praise
"Thought-provoking."-New York Times
"Sand Talk is an important book. Tyson Yunkaporta an important and original thinker and writer. The book unpacks for us something originally genius about Indigenous thought, which has for too long been dismissed as archaic folk knowledge from old oral cultures of interest only to academics and fetishists. This book shows how vital and alive and essential Indigenous ways of being and thinking are. Yunkaporta is so smart, funny, and accessible. Everyone needs to read this."-Tommy Orange, best-selling author of There There
"An extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming… Unheralded."-Melissa Lucashenko
"It was certainty that drove a bulldozer through the oldest and deepest philosophic statement on earth at Burrup Peninsula. Sand Talk offers no certainties and Tyson Yunkaporta is not a bulldozer driver. This is a book of cultural and philosophic intrigue. Read it."-Bruce Pascoe
"Radical ideas, bursting with reason."-Tara June Winch
"After two hundred years, Indigenous thinkers are claiming the right to interpret Aboriginal Australia. It is a revolutionary change: here, in this compelling book, are its first fruits."-Nicolas Rothwell
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781925773996 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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