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Winner, Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2020
Shortlisted, Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2020
Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Indie Book Awards, 2020
Longlisted, Bookseller's Choice for Adult Nonfiction, Australian Booksellers Association, 2020
What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world?
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.
Author: Tyson Yunkaporta
Paperback Published 29 August 2023 288 pages
Originally published in trade paperback 3 September 2019