Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts
$105.36
- Paperback
333 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2016
Summary
How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own-outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer- we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them.Objects are a window, and by looking through them we can learn and understand more about the people who made them and the time and place they came fro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935623168 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1935623168 |
| Author: | Mary Jo Arnoldi |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 333 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 921g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 206mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Mary Jo Arnoldi
Mary Jo Arnoldiis the curator of African Ethnology and Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She has conducted research in West Africa since 1978 and her many publications on African material culture includenumerous articles on the museum’s historic African collections and its African exhibitions. She co-curated the exhibitionsAfrican Voices,the museum’s permanent African exhibition (2000);From Timbuctu to Washington(Mali Program) at Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2003); andMud Masons of Mali;and produced the filmMud Masons of Djenne(2013).
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