Translating Encounters May 30, 2011

Wonder, confusion, and curiosity: just a few of the responses by Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans in the age of exploration, as each struggled to comprehend the other. Inspired by collections of the Peabody Museum, Houghton Library, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, this 'Translating Encounters: Travel and Transformation in the Early Seventeenth Century' broadly explores global mobility, encounter, and exchange in colonial encounters among peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.