Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Product Description

This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’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.

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.

• Winner, Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2020
• Winner, The Ansari Institute's Randa and Sherif Nasr Book Prize on Religion & the World, United States, 2022 
• Shortlisted, Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2020 
• Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Indie Book Awards, 2020 
• Longlisted, Booktopia Favourite Australian Book, 2020
• Longlisted, Bookseller's Choice for Adult Nonfiction, Australian Booksellers Association, 2020
• Longlisted, Non-fiction, Indie Book Awards, Leading Edge, 2020