The land has memory : indigenous knowledge, native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian /

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In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most plantings that surround other museums on the National Mall, the landscape aro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Otros Autores: Blue Spruce, Duane, Thrasher, Tanya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, ©2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) > Buildings > Pictorial works.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Ethnobotany > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Ethnobotanique > Washington (D.C.) > Ouvrages illustrés.
Jardins > Architecture > Washington (D.C.) > Ouvrages illustrés.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Buildings
Ethnobotany
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany
Landscape gardening
Washington (D.C.)
Electronic books.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most plantings that surround other museums on the National Mall, the landscape around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit, carefully created to reflect indigenous ways of thinking about the land and its uses. Abundantly illustrated, The Land Has Memory offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as w.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 166 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780807889787
0807889784
9781469606019
1469606011

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