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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Collectivité auteur: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Autres auteurs: Thrasher, Tanya, Blue Spruce, Duane
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 2008.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) > Buildings > Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening.
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany.
Ethnobotany.
Buildings.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Jardins > Architecture > Washington (D.C.) > Ouvrages illustres.
Ethnobotanique > Washington (D.C.) > Ouvrages illustres.
Landscape gardening > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Ethnobotany > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Indians of North America > Ethnobotany > Washington (D.C.) > Pictorial works.
Washington (D.C.)
Ouvrages illustres.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
illustrated books.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (184 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469606019

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