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The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Tanya Thrasher (Ed.)
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Description for The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Paperback. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit. This work features images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Editor(s): Spruce, Duane Blue; Thrasher, Tanya. Num Pages: 184 pages, 75 colour & 25 b&w illustrations, 1 table, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KB; GM; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 540.
This work features the stories and meanings behind the museum's landscape. 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 landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment 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 ... Read more
This work features the stories and meanings behind the museum's landscape. 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 landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807859360
SKU
V9780807859360
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99-15
About Tanya Thrasher (Ed.)
Duane Blue Spruce (Laguna/San Juan Pueblo), an architect, served for ten years as the primary liaison between the museum and the architectural design and construction team. He currently works at NMAI's George Gustav Heye Center in New York.||Tanya Thrasher (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) is assistant head of publications at NMAI
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