Tuesday, 25 August 2009 14:14
Seeds of Change
Thirty-two poster mounted on eight cardboard kiosks. Each kiosk is 3’ square and 6’ tall. Two shipping cases. 1992, Companion volume available. See next entry.
The collision of two worlds that came in the wake of Columbus’s voyages to the New World is the focus of the exhibit Seeds of Change. This exhibit looks at the Columbian encounter from the point of view of biological exchanges and their social and cultural effects. It looks at the process of change, both planned and inadvertent, by tracing five biological transfers-sugar, maize, disease, the horse, and the potato-and their effects on both the Old and New Worlds. The exhibit concludes with the continuing legacy of the encounter-the environmental consequences of the 500 year exchange and the choices we face as we approach the next century.
The collision of two worlds that came in the wake of Columbus’s voyages to the New World is the focus of the exhibit Seeds of Change. This exhibit looks at the Columbian encounter from the point of view of biological exchanges and their social and cultural effects. It looks at the process of change, both planned and inadvertent, by tracing five biological transfers-sugar, maize, disease, the horse, and the potato-and their effects on both the Old and New Worlds. The exhibit concludes with the continuing legacy of the encounter-the environmental consequences of the 500 year exchange and the choices we face as we approach the next century.
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History