Summary of Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The echidnas are smart enough, and their prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain used for complex reasoning and decision making, is the biggest in relation to body size of any mammal. They have never used their intelligence to destroy anything yet, but they could if they get tired of the incompetence of domesticated humans.
#2 The war between good and evil is actually an imposed simplicity over complexity. The world is now mired in it.
#3 I was born in Melbourne, but grew up in a dozen different remote or rural communities all over Queensland. I was not a happy camper as a child, but taking control of my life as a legal adult did not improve my disposition. I was not a real person, just a bundle of extreme reactions and rage.
#4 I traveled to work with Indigenous groups and communities all over Australia. I gained more knowledge, but it came at a price. I needed to work and study hard so I could support my children and extended family dependents, but I also needed to live and grow in my culture.

Sujets

• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669373070
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The echidnas are smart enough, and their prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain used for complex reasoning and decision making, is the biggest in relation to body size of any mammal. They have never used their intelligence to destroy anything yet, but they could if they get tired of the incompetence of domesticated humans.

#2

The war between good and evil is actually an imposed simplicity over complexity. The world is now mired in it.

#3

I was born in Melbourne, but grew up in a dozen different remote or rural communities all over Queensland. I was not a happy camper as a child, but taking control of my life as a legal adult did not improve my disposition. I was not a real person, just a bundle of extreme reactions and rage.

#4

I traveled to work with Indigenous groups and communities all over Australia. I gained more knowledge, but it came at a price. I needed to work and study hard so I could support my children and extended family dependents, but I also needed to live and grow in my culture.

#5

I often have to call myself Bama because senior people in the south have insisted on it. I am uninitiated, which means that at the age of forty-seven I still only have the cultural knowledge and status of a fourteen-year-old boy.

#6

The process of declaring an uninterrupted cultural tradition is a difficult concession for most Indigenous communities to make, when the reality is that they are affiliated with multiple groups and have disrupted affiliations.

#7

I am not reporting on Indigenous Knowledge systems for a global audience. I am examining global systems from an Indigenous Knowledge perspective. The symbols that follow help to express this concept as a hand gesture: left hand sideways with closed fingers, representing a page or screen, print-based knowledge in general; right hand with fingers spread out like a rock art stencil, representing the oral cultures and knowledge of First Peoples.

#8

I will include some parts of Juma’s Star Dreaming in each chapter to help with deeper understandings of the concepts. There are six images, three at each end of the turtle shell, which will be accompanied by a yarn.

#9

I want to use an Indigenous pattern-thinking process to critique contemporary systems. I want to avoid the ubiquitous Indigenous literary genre of self-narrative and auto-biography, and instead convey a sense of the pattern of creation itself.

#10

I write to provoke thought rather than represent fact, in a sort of dialogical and reflective process with the reader. I use the dual first person to emphasize the collective nature of the conversation.