Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Are.na
In Aboriginal worldviews, nothing exists outside of a relationship to something else.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Tyson Yunkaporta has many such anecdotes in his book Sand Talk:
[The Elder] says things like, ‘It is going to rain in twelve minutes,’ and the kids time it on their phones and laugh in amazement when his prediction comes true. He predicts events like an annual emergence of flying ants from the ground, then follows seasonal signals, winding through t... See more
[The Elder] says things like, ‘It is going to rain in twelve minutes,’ and the kids time it on their phones and laugh in amazement when his prediction comes true. He predicts events like an annual emergence of flying ants from the ground, then follows seasonal signals, winding through t... See more
Into the Psychozoic
Stuart Evans added
Every viewpoint is useful and it takes a wide diversity of views for any group to navigate this universe, let alone to act as custodians for it.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Keely Adler and added
The assistance I’m talking about comes from sharing patterns of knowledge and ways of thinking that will help trigger the ancestral knowledge hidden inside. The assistance people need is not in learning about Aboriginal Knowledge but in remembering their own.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This is the perspective you need to be a custodian rather than an owner of lands, communities or knowledge.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Our knowledge endures because everybody carries a part of it, no matter how fragmentary. If you want to see the pattern of creation you talk to everybody and listen carefully. Authentic knowledge processes are easy to verify if you are familiar with that pattern—each part reflects the design of the whole system. If the pattern is present, the knowl
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Every viewpoint is useful and it takes a wide diversity of views for any group to navigate this universe, let alone to act as custodians for it.