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Sand TalkTyson Yunkaporta

Sand Talk

2019256 pages
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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…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2021
    HarperOne · 336 pages · 9780062975621
  • Hardcover · English · 2020
    HarperOne · 256 pages · 9780062975645
  • Other · English · 2024
    Text Publishing Company · 9781922790514
  • Other · English · 2020
    HarperCollins Publishers · 256 pages · 9780062975638
  • Other · English · 2019
    Text Publishing Company · 224 pages · 9781925773996
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