
Sand Talk
How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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Tyson Yunkaporta
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By:
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Tyson Yunkaporta
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.
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Tyson Yunkaporta.
I'm not too sure why he is not more sought after by top podcasters, more publishers and world leaders alike. Publisher's note: "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." ...I guess they'll catch on in another 20 years. If you get the audio book - where you can listen to (engage with? I did) Yunkaporta's deeply sobering, rugged baritone voice, agile enough to achieve a hilarious but also loving gentle whimsy - be sure to download and study the accompanying PDF where he describes the simple-with-profound-implications drawings in his book narration. The less than great reviews of this book are by those who most likely can't sit with themselves.
taking notes, journaling for complete integration
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