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Sand Talk

Tyson Yunkaporta

2019224 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2019
first published
  • 2019Text Publishing Company · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781925773996
  • 2020HarperCollins Publishers · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780062975638
  • 2024Text Publishing Company · ENGISBN 9781922790514
  • 2020HarperOne · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780062975645
  • 2021HarperOne · 336 pagesISBN 9780062975621

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.

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