Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World’s Oldest People by Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges, author bio page and last page.

Australian Aboriginals taught themselves thousands of years ago how to build a sustainable society in our fragile landscape. In a unique collaboration, a Swedish knowledge management professor finds out from an Aboriginal cultural custodian how they did it, and what we can learn from them.

Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe show how traditional Aboriginal stories and paintings were used to convey knowledge from one generation to the next, about the environment, law and relationships. They reveal the hidden art of four-level storytelling and discuss how the stories and the way they were used formed the basis for a sustainable society. They also explain ecological farming methods and how the Aboriginal style of leadership created resilient societies. (back cover)