Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta
Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta
3 Rating(s)
List: $23.99 | Sale: $16.79
Club: $11.99

Sand Talk
How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Author: Tyson Yunkaporta

Narrator: Tyson Yunkaporta

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/12/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
In this thoughtful, culturally rich, mind-expanding book, he provides answers. Yunkaporta’s writing process begins with images. Honoring indigenous traditions, he makes carvings of what he wants to say, channeling his thoughts through symbols and diagrams rather than words. He yarns with people, looking for ways to connect images and stories with place and relationship to create a coherent world view, and he uses sand talk, the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to convey knowledge. In Sand Talk, he provides a new model for our everyday lives. Rich in ideas and inspiration, it explains 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 everyone and listening carefully. It’s about finding different ways to look at things.Most of all it’s about a very special way of thinking, of learning to see from a native perspective, one that is spiritually and physically tied to the earth around us, and how it can save our world.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Tyson Yunkaporta

Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, winner of the Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Ansari Institute’s Randa and Sherif Nasr Book Prize on Religion & the World, awarded to an author who explores global issues using Indigenous perspectives. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on January 13, 2021

Reading Tyson's book is like dropping a mentos into a bottle of coke. That coke is never going to be the same again. I'd recommend taking this book as slow as you need to really get a handle on the many concepts covered. Also, pass it forward. Once you've finished give this as a gift to a friend or l......more

Goodreads review by Pat on June 26, 2020

Tyson Yunkaporta examines ways of using Indigenous Australian knowledge to gain wisdom and a better understanding of how the world works. He provides ides for different thinking about the inter-connectedness of everything and suggests how contemporary living endangers the natural order of things. It......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 22, 2020

This is an awful lot to take in. It's accessible written, but Yunkaporta challenges the fundamental ways in which most of us see the world. I bristled against parts of this, especially the sections on gender, but found so much of it hugely compelling. Everyone should read it.......more

Goodreads review by Keira on November 11, 2020

This book is extraordinary. I've never read a book that actually challenged the internal workings of my brain. I just kept turning the pages and new ideas jumped into my mind one after the other. I need to read it again slowly, with a highlighter pen, and take proper notes. Every chapter covers a di......more

Goodreads review by alice on March 12, 2021

closer to a 3.5 there’s a whole web of interconnected thoughts & feelings i have as i reflect on this book. all of which enrich or diminish depending which train of thought is followed. i also am aware of certain problems politically. firstly, disregard the hideous and embarrassing subtitle. it’s suc......more