eBook

land has memory

Thrasher, Tanya, Blue Spruce, Duane

2008,2009,2014

Overview

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 Memoryoffers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Essays by Smithsonian staff and others involved in the museum's creation provide an examination of indigenous peoples' long and varied relationship to the land in the Americas, an account of the museum designers' efforts to reflect traditional knowledge in the creation of individual landscape elements, detailed descriptions of the 150 native plant species used, and an exploration of how the landscape changes seasonally.The Land Has Memoryserves not only as an attractive and informative keepsake for museum visitors, but also as a thoughtful representation of how traditional indigenous ways of knowing can be put into practice.

• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
• Subject: Anthropology / Buildings / Cultural / Ethnic Studies / Ethnobotany / Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works / HISTORY / Indians of North America / Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works / Landscape gardening / Landscape gardening -- Washington (D.C.) -- Pictorial works / National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) / National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) -- Buildings -- Pictorial works / Native American Studies / Pictorial works / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / United States / Washington (D.C.)
• ISBN: 9780807832646, 0807859362, 9780807859360, 0807832642, 0807889784, 9780807889787