A delightful yarn with Tyson Yunkporta, Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk. Tyson is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland, Australia.
On this episode we discuss:
- How their systems lab aggregates data and knowledge through indigenous sense-making protocols
- “Avatar Depression” syndrome and how the West may begin to remember its own aboriginal knowledge
- How giving names to nature can either kill, or create kinship
- The role of ceremony in maintaining energy flows.. And why ceremony isn’t always such an enjoyable matter!
- Why baramundi is not the correct name for a saltwater fish, and why biomimicry doesn’t work quite as well as we may think
- How land seen as capital becomes a dying land
- And finally, what happens when the dress rehearsal for an epic ceremony actually becomes the real thing!
Episode Website Link: lifeworld.earth/episodes/indigenousviewtysonyunkaporta
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Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.
Music Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd
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