Cover of Sand Talk

Book 2020

Sand Talk

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Publisher
HarperOne
Published
2020
  • Aboriginal australians
  • Ethnology
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Aboriginal Australian Philosophy
  • Philosophy
  • Attitudes
  • Public opinion
  • Modern Civilization

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinger'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.