Sand Talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta is an illustrated edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2021, comprising 256 pages. This book presents a crucial Indigenous perspective on historical and cultural issues, including education, money, power, and sustainability. Yunkaporta examines how contemporary life diverges from natural patterns, raising significant questions about our current systems and how we might approach life differently.
Readers will find a culturally rich exploration that combines images, symbols, and stories to create a coherent worldview. Yunkaporta employs the Aboriginal custom of sand talk to convey knowledge, emphasizing the importance of listening and connecting with the environment. This work offers a new model for understanding our everyday lives, focusing on how we learn and remember, and encouraging a unique way of thinking that is deeply tied to the earth. The edition includes 22 black-and-white illustrations that enhance the text and provide additional context to the ideas presented.
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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.
Sand Talk include 22 black-and-white illustrations that add depth to the text.
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