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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... 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... See more
Into the Psychozoic
Dr Tyson Yunkaporta is exactly what we need in the World today ... a person who can help us see the Cosmos through the eyes of the Indigenous Australians ... the longest living culture in the History of our Planet. The Aboriginals kept our country in pristine condition for 40,000 years
Tyson Yunkaporta discusses Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
I simply hold those objects and translate into print parts of the knowledge I see there. This is my method, and I call it umpan because that is our word for cutting, carving, and making—it is also the word now used for writing. My method for writing incorporates images and story attached to place and relationships, expressed first through cultural
... See moreTyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
value. I write to provoke thought rather than represent fact, in a kind of dialogical and reflective process with the reader. For this I often use the dual first person. It is a common pronoun in Indigenous languages but not present in English; that’s why I translate it as ‘us-two’, my fingers typing those letters while my mouth is saying ngal.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
In Aboriginal worldviews, nothing exists outside of a relationship to something else. There are no isolated variables—every element must be considered in relation to the other elements and the context. Areas of knowledge are integrated, not separated. The relationship between the knower and other knowers, places and senior knowledge-keepers is... See more