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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable for our times
Reviewed in Australia on 24 January 2023
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This book blew my mind. It is a primer in deep Australian Aboriginal thinking for the Western-educated. Yunkaporta is not scoffing at or rejecting Aristotle, the Enlightenment, scientific method; he is presenting a framework within which these and other, older ways of knowing can lead us deeper and deeper into understanding the phenomena of our universe, and into choosing and refining our response to our times.

Sorry, that sounds abstract, and what Yunkaporta is offering us whitefellas is pragmatic applied wisdom. His tone is gentle, light-hearted and at the same time deeply serious. OK, sometimes he is critical, and with reason. But he is teaching, not preaching. The book is not academic philosophy, although Yunkaporta is highly literate in Western culture. He is offering us a worldview, an account of the universe based on Indigenous insights and frameworks of thought. And he gave me a glimpse of what I had been missing all these years. Metaphysics and making, stories and knowledge, understanding and ethics, constellations and communities, people and land, are not separate; the densely-woven connections between them are the key to understanding.

As we face the prospect of planetary collapse, of our own making, we need to grow our mental capacities; it is more and more urgent. The mental frameworks and and habits that got us into this will not get us out of it. And Indigenous, including Australian Aboriginal, mind-tools have power and relevance that the mainstream culture has not yet begun to suspect.

Read it. I know I will be re-reading it a lot; the first reading has only shown me that another world exists.
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Ange Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, such an awesome book
Reviewed in Australia on 2 April 2024
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This book expanded my mind in ways I could not imagine previously. I wish I could find the words to describe it and its content, however it feels beyond words, or that English is insufficient to describe it.
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Uwe Dulleck
5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge and Science
Reviewed in Australia on 21 August 2023
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I got recommended this book talking to (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and "mainstream") peoples that care about how we live together, but also about closing the gap in education, health, etc. . My question always is, how can we understand each other better - how (as a "white" person) can we exchange, ideas, views, thoughts, and plan for collaboration (I am an academic economist in my day job - so I do a little bit of that for a living).
Yunkaporta does a good job to understand narrative knowledge - comparing it to traditional science. The way he discusses the topics provides one with a better understanding of how arguments are made, in a culture that uses narrative knowledge for a long time - very different from the "western" way to have these discussions that we have cultivated for maybe 250 years.
Read the book if you are keen to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on Sustainability, but even more so, to understand how one can think differently.
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Monica McCarthy
4.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in Australia on 19 October 2020
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Great insight. Particularly in the current way we are living today.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book for our times
Reviewed in Australia on 4 November 2023
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The world we live in through the lens of 60,000 years of Aboriginal systems thinking. As Tyson says, his people are still here so they must be doing something right. In classic style, the book tells that story without any preaching. Just humility, observation, wisdom and story. It's in my 10 desert Island book list.
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Matthew Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars The world would be a better place if everyone read this book
Reviewed in Australia on 12 January 2021
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This book will sit with you long after you’ve read it. It contains so many insights about so many topics, yet doesn’t feel overwhelming to read. In fact, it’s incredibly enjoyable and hard to put down. Beautifully written and full of very important messages.
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Nicole Cody
5.0 out of 5 stars A revelation, and a reassurance - so helpful for me personally and professionally
Reviewed in Australia on 16 November 2019
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Many years ago, at a difficult time in my life, I found myself living in the remote Kimberley in Western Australia. I was in my mid-twenties, university and city educated, and none of what I knew was helping me. A group of wise, kind Aboriginal women Elders took me under their wing, and taught me things I have never forgotten. They helped me see the world and myself in a much more connected and holistic way, reconnected me with my history and my own family lines, and helped me to feel like I belonged - to life, to the landscape, and to the distant shores from which my Ancestors had come. It changed my life. Reading Sand Talk took me straight back to yarning with my Aunties and Grannies. I don't want to do this book an injustice by trying to explain what it is. Instead, I recommend that you read it a first time to crack you open and start rewiring your brain to be able to work in a way it hasn't for generations. And then go back and read it again. And later, again. Every time your feet walk that path you'll remember more, absorb more, reclaim more. No matter who you are, or where you live, this book has relevance. I highly recommend it.
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Ray Butterworth
3.0 out of 5 stars Not an easy read
Reviewed in Australia on 4 April 2021
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This book was for my wife. She commented to me that it was difficult to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting
Reviewed in the United States on 10 February 2024
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The author is very grounded, articulate and has a unique perspective.
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David Cameron
5.0 out of 5 stars If there is "a way" forward, this could be the entry point.
Reviewed in Canada on 13 April 2023
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Straddling cultures is an uneasy stance, suspect from both sides. But how else could we hope for anyone to fashion a balanced perspective from which to proceed?

I read and share a lot in the area of reconciliation, regeneration, the remaining possibilities. Sand Talk is now my most important resource. Please read, ponder, let Yunkaporta expand your mind...and pass it around.
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Maru
4.0 out of 5 stars Hermoso y poético
Reviewed in Mexico on 22 November 2022
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No he terminado de leerlo pero es muy bello y nos abre a una manera diferente de ver la vida y el mundo. Llegó en buenas condiciones.
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MSP Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-opening, reflection-provoking and funny
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2023
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This is a wonderful book. I would like it to be used in schools world wide, to help people from dominant cultures understand that other(ed) people exist and have voices and opinions and lives to get on with in ways that are, as is the dominant paradigm, only part of a huge dynamic whole.

Yunkaporta's writing is funny and accessible, and he has a wonderful way of including the reader in his cosily irreverent attitudes; yet what he has to communicate is hard-hitting and mind-expanding. His analogies and summaries can be a little sweeping, as if you were having a real life heated discussion, but this fits with his easy, Mark Twainish style.

He covers many social and economic theories about how to live, from all sorts of communities, including his own, with a marvellously open mind. He's sceptical about absolutely everything, no matter what the origin of the idea, but gives everything the respect of true consideration. His logical analysis can be devastating when an idea is particularly silly, but those theories that hold up under his scrutiny have won something, perhaps just the acknowledgement of being solid enough at this time to stand on for the next step.

The book is in no way a manifesto demanding that everyone should live a certain way, instead it provides amazing context on why people live in the ways they do, and information about some of the different ways of organising society.

I would recommend this to practically everybody, for the insights, information, humour and perspective-shift. It's great.
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Rudolf Stark
5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read this
Reviewed in Germany on 14 July 2020
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Amazing work, amazing mind, amazing read! Highly recommended.
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