“The Argonauts of the Western Pacific”

“The Argonauts of the Western Pacific”

Murilo Jambeiro de Oliveira

Brazil, August 18, 2025.

I find the history of money incredibly curious. It began with salt, precious metals, then leaves, like tobacco leaves, or paper money like in America, until it became electronic locks. As an anthropologist, this is a line of reasoning I use a lot, and I’ve even gone back quite a bit to tobacco leaves. But fundamentally, we need to think about POTUS 48 as well, like the Medicine Wheel, and issues of biosecurity in the interconnected world, just as in Brazil, there’s often no basic sanitation. Strengthening this group and its importance, for a time beyond the adjustment of exchanges of objects in the world, and we will take care of both, with the cultural diversity that is unique and useful to us.

For example, the story of the purchase of territories is curious, as is the story of Alaska, as is the story of the dominator in South America. It’s said that the state of Acre in Brazil was bought for a few horses; I don’t know if that’s true. Until some time ago, territories were traded. The history of the South American natives is no less curious. The Brazilian natives, for example, traded for mirrors, or, as I later heard, sugar. But what I find most curious is the apparent extinction of the Mexican natives due to the fascination the Spanish colonizer aroused when they landed horses. Beyond the figure of the warrior horse, which is a cultural approximation I sometimes try to make with the mythological figure of the dragon, which in most cases, in ancestral martial culture, is a royal guard, riding a horse and fighting on foot. The fascination with this animal among the Mexican natives seems to be, in some sense, the end of that civilization, such was the awe that horses aroused in them, beyond the mirrors of the Brazilian natives. I recently recommended to Priscila Chan, a beautiful story of exchanges between natives, which in its introduction explains the work of the Anthropologist, by Bronisław Malinowski, called “The Argonauts of the Western Pacific”.

The point is: both things concern me substantially. That there be a healthy exchange of things—this adjustment isn’t simple—but there should also be a legitimate concern for health from now on, in the sense of basic sanitation in countries like Brazil. Pragmatically speaking, these are the “lucky things” of the world. Bronisław Malinowski will talk about Kula, which are the ceremonial exchanges of things. I think that’s the kind of concern that exists today. But projecting it much further, to think about USVA Emblem 48, and not just the current POTUS’s 47, is much more important for Brazil, for example, the Medicine Wheel of USVA Emblem 48, if indeed American veterans make that the luck of their votes.

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Murilo Oliveira is a Brazilian lawyer, the themes proposed here are of variety, without political or religious purposes, as for all those who hold the angelic culture in great esteem. Visit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/198793615@N08

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