A Eurocentric View: These Illustrations changed the 18th century European worldview of America’s Indigenous population

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A Eurocentric View: These Illustrations changed the 18th century European worldview of America’s Indigenous population

The International Museum of Art & Science exhibit “Ceremonies of the Americas” presents engraved illustrations by Bernard Picart from his popular book, “Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World” published in 1727 in collaboration with Jean Frédéric Bernard. Protesting the existing Eurocentric worldview during the 18th century when Indigenous peoples of the Americas were often depicted as exotic, different, and barbarous with no rel…