McClarnand MacKinnon Elaine - Places of encounter: time, place, and connectivity in world history

Places of

Encounter

VOLUME I

Places of

Encounter

Time, Place, and Connectivity
in World History

VOLUME I

ARAN MACKINNON
ELAINE MACKINNON
EDITORS

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Places of encounter: time, place and connectivity in world history / Aran MacKinnon, Elaine MacKinnon, editors.

v. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8133-4738-7

1. World history. 2. World historySources. 3. Cities and townsHistory. 4. Cities and townsHistorySources. 5. Social changeHistory. 6. Social changeHistorySources. 7. Cultural relationsHistory. 8. Cultural relationsHistorySources.

I. MacKinnon, Aran S. II. McClarnand MacKinnon, Elaine.

D21.3.P56 2012

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2012000612

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Contents

Aran MacKinnon dedicates Places of Encounter
to his co-editor/author and wife, Elaine,
whose shared love for South Africa inspired this project,
and to their fellow traveler, Kieran.

Places of Encounter in Global Perspective

Lucys Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins, by Donald Johanson and Katy Wong, copyright 2009, 2010 by Donald C. Johanson and Kate Wong. Used by permission of Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Excerpts from Gilgamesh reprinted with the permission of Free Press, a Division ofSimon & Schuster, Inc., from GILGAMESH: A New English Translation byStephen Mitchell. Copyright 2004 by Stephen Mitchell. All rights reserved.

Lysias, On the Killing of Eratosthenes, in Trials from Classical Athens, edited by Christopher Carey (London: Routledge, 1997), 34.

Thucydides, The Funeral Oration of Pericles, from The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides, The Crawley Translation, translated by T. E. Wick and Richard Crawley (New York: McGraw Hill, 1982), 108110.

J. M. Moore, The Constitution of the Athenians, Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy, copyright 1975 by J. M. Moore, published by the University of California Press; From Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy, by J. M. Moore, published by Chatto and Windus. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

Tong, Xiao, Two Capitals Rhapsody, Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature,Vol. 1, copyright 1982 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

Miss Ren, from Chinese Literature 3: Tales of the Supernatural, by H. C. Chang. Copyright February 28, 2011, Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Politica translated by Jowett from Politics & Economics from The Oxford Translationof Aristotle edited by W. D. Ross (Volume X, 1921) 782w. By permission of OxfordUniversity Press.

Letter on Constantinople, by Benjamin of Tudela, from Sandra Benjamin, ed., TheWorld of Benjamin of Tudela (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995), 129132. Reprinted with permission of Associated University Presses.

Cyril Mango, ed., The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 3121453 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Medieval Academy of America, 1986), 83, 85, 91; The clear sky... the living God, English translation by Paul Magdalino. Reprinted with permission of the Medieval Academy of America.

The Travels of Ibn Battuta, excerpt from One Thousand Roads to Mecca, copyright 1997 by Michael Wolfe. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Poems of Kabir and Tulsi, from Paras Nath Tivari, Kabir Granthavali, andRamcandra Sukla et al., eds., Tulsi-Granthavali, both quoted in Songs of the Saintsof India, edited by John Stratton Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer (New Delhi,India: Oxford University Press, 1988), 52, 53, 163.

Reading 2: Songs of the Saints of India by John Stratton Hawley (1989); from KabirGranthavali, verse 178, 24 lines, 151 words. By permission of Oxford UniversityPress, Inc.

Reading 3: Songs of the Saints of India by John Stratton Hawley (1989); from KabirGranthavali, verse 46, 13 lines, 101 words. By permission of Oxford UniversityPress, Inc.

Reading 4: Songs of the Saints of India by John Stratton Hawley (1989); from TulsiDas Kavitavali, verse 7.73, 16 lines, 96 words. By permission of Oxford UniversityPress, Inc.

Where possible, in any electronic edition, a link is set up to our own website (URLwww.oup.com)

Jos de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the Indies, edited by Jane E. Mangan, introduction by Walter D. Mignolo, translated by Frances M. Lpez Morillas (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 172173. Copyright 2002 Duke University Press. Reprinted with permission.

J. V. G. Mills, trans. and ed., Ma Huan Ying-yai Sheng-lan: The Overall Survey of the Oceans Shores [1433] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1970), adapted from 109114. Copyright 1970 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

Barbara Watson Andaya

Barbara Watson Andaya is a professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawaii, where she teaches courses on gender, religion, and the evolution of Southeast Asian studies. She is currently involved in research on the localization of Christianity in pre-twentieth-century Southeast Asia. The author of several books and articles on the history of the Malacca Straits region, including a co-authored A History of Malaysia (University of Hawaii Press), she lived in Malaysia in the early 1970s, and still returns regularly to visit.

Leonard Y. Andaya

Leonard Y. Andaya is a professor of history at the University of Hawaii, where he teaches courses on Southeast Asian history and a senior tutorial on Asia and the Pacific. He has written extensively on the precolonial period of Malaysian history and has coauthored