Bonnie G. Smith - World in the Making: A Global History, Volume Two: Since 1300

VOLUME TWO: SINCE 1300

Bonnie G. Smith

Rutgers University

Marc Van De Mieroop

Columbia University

Richard von Glahn

University of California, Los Angeles

Kris Lane

Tulane University

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Smith, Bonnie G., 1940- author.

Title: World in the making : a global history / Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University, Marc Van de Mieroop, Columbia University, Richard von Glahn, University of California, Los Angeles, Kris Lane, Tulane University.

Description: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018006687| ISBN 9780190849238 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780190849245 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780190849269 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190849276 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: World history.

Classification: LCC D21 .S626 2018 | DDC 909dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006687

Printing number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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PART 2 Crossroads and Cultures 5001450 C.E.

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I once met a little girl tenderly carrying a puppy in the bark [-fiber] carrying-strap that her mother used for her little sister. Are you stroking your baby dog? I asked her. She solemnly replied, When I am big, I will kill wild pigs and monkeys; I will club them all to death when he barks!

The world-famous French anthropologist Claude Lvi-Strauss spent much of the mid-twentieth century scouring Brazils backlands in search of native Americans whose cultures remained largely unchanged by contact with Europeans and others. He wanted to catalogue and analyze their unique customs, myths, and material culture before they disappeared. Made rich by global demand for coffee and other raw commodities, Brazil was rapidly industrializing, encouraging prospectors, ranchers, and homesteaders to transform what had for over ten thousand years been Indian country.

In the late 1930s, Lvi-Strauss spent time among the Nambikwara of western Mato Grosso State, near the border with Bolivia. As he recalled in his best-selling 1955 memoir Tristes Tropiques : Although the Nambikwara were easy-going, and unperturbed by the presence of an anthropologist with his notebook and camera, the work was complicated by linguistic difficulties. Long isolated, the Nambikwara spoke no Portuguese. Lvi-Strauss nevertheless learned to communicate in the Nambikwara language, such that he felt comfortable quoting the unnamed little girl with the puppy, future hunter of boars and monkeys.