Sand Talk

Summary

Apalech Clan scholar Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems – history, money, power, learning – from an Indigenous perspective, asking where modern life has drifted from creation’s pattern and how we might live differently. The book roams from echidnas to Schrödinger’s cat, using lines, symbols and shapes to make sense of the world.

Rationale

We found cognition “embodied, ecological and distributed” in science and older traditions. Yunkaporta speaks from such a tradition: reasoning grown “from a lived cultural framework embedded in the landscape”.