Snake Talk

‘I love this book. Every page is an illumination.’ * Bronwyn Bancroft *‘Rich and layered…At a time when our world feels fragile, we sorely need the kind of fresh thinking found in this expansive and visionary book.’ * Readings *‘The perspective is capacious yet intimate in tone’ * Age *‘An extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming…Unheralded.’ * Melissa Lucashenko on Sand Talk *‘This exhilarating new book – like Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story – shines an Indigenous light on contemporary society. Snake Talk invites us to see the world through the eye of the Serpent.’ * Australian Arts Review *

Tyson Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises.

Megan Kelleher belongs to the Barada and Kapalbara peoples of Central Queensland and the branch of the Kelleher clan living in regional Victoria. She is currently undertaking her PhD at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication and was honoured to be awarded one of RMIT’s Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in 2018. Megan is investigating whether the affordances of blockchain technology are culturally appropriate for Indigenous governance, and is undertaking this research as a core member of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) and as a PhD Candidate within The ARC Centre of Excellence forAutomated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). When she is not training to be an academic, Megan is a devoted mother of her three beautiful children, Eden, Diver and Onyx.