{"id":101,"date":"2019-08-30T13:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2019-08-30T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:16:41","slug":"exhibit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The exhibit &#8220;A World of Comparisons&#8221; will be on display during the fall 2019 semester in the Chapin Gallery, Sawyer Library. Curated by Alexander Bevilacqua, Lisa Conathan, and Anne Peale, the exhibit was designed to coincide with the &#8220;Global Archive of Comparison&#8221; conference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>A World of Comparisons<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, the peoples of the world interacted with increasing frequency and intensity all across the globe. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A World of Comparisons<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> documents European efforts to make sense of the diversity of humankind during this era. Writing in a wide variety of genres, from dictionaries and grammars to histories, geographies, travel accounts, and costume books, Europeans sought to make sense of other people and places.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The search for profit was a major reason why Europeans settled in new regions of the world. But efforts to make sense of others were powered especially by religion. The quest for new converts did not preclude but rather gave rise to serious cross-cultural interactions. So too did the search for the roots of Judaism and Christianity. Whatever their motivations, European scholars and writers consistently depended on collaboration with people in the cultures about which they wrote, whether indigenous doctors in Mexico and Brazil or local artists in the Ottoman Empire and South Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Special Collections of Williams College offer a rich trove for recovering the European side of this global history. The \u201cforeigners scroll\u201d from early nineteenth-century Japan on display here was purchased as a reminder that cross-cultural study was anything but a European monopoly. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A World of Comparisons<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> demonstrates that serious cross-cultural study predates the era of modern European imperialism by centuries. In the early centuries of globalization, it offered insights that people in Lima, Lisbon, Calcutta and Kyoto could use to understand themselves and their increasingly connected world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibit &#8220;A World of Comparisons&#8221; will be on display during the fall 2019 semester in the Chapin Gallery, Sawyer Library. Curated by Alexander Bevilacqua, Lisa Conathan, and Anne Peale, the exhibit was designed to coincide with the &#8220;Global Archive of Comparison&#8221; conference. A World of Comparisons In the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, the peoples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2014,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/global-archive-comparison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}