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Sand Talk

Tyson Yunkaporta

What can Indigenous Australian ways of knowing, tied to land and passed on through story, teach everyone about thinking and living with the world?

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Author
Tyson Yunkaporta

Why read it

  • You will question the habit of treating our own species as the intelligent centre of everything
  • You will see how knowledge can be held in story and place, not only in books
  • You will consider how ancient, land based ways of knowing might help with today's sustainability crises

Who it is for

  • A reader tired of one model of progress and open to another
  • A teacher or manager who wants other ways to explain complex systems
  • Someone working on land care or sustainability projects

Contents

  1. About The Book
  2. The Porcupine, the Paleo-mind and the Grand Design
  3. Albino Boy
  4. First Law
  5. Forever Limited
  6. Lines in the Sand
  7. Of Spirit and Spirits
  8. Advanced and Fair
  9. Romancing the Stone Age
  10. Displaced Apostrophes
  11. Lemonade for Headaches
  12. Duck Hunting is Everybody’s Business
  13. Immovable Meets Irresistible
  14. Be Like Your Place
  15. Which Way

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