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The land has memory : indigenous knowledge, native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution,
©2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 166 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807889787 0807889784 9781469606019 1469606011 |