Author: Carla M. Sinopoli
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Author: Grace Beardsley
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Author: Kerstin Barndt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472122649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge explores the museums, libraries, and special collections of the University of Michigan on its bicentennial. Since its inception, U-M has collected and preserved objects: biological and geological specimens; ethnographic and archaeological artifacts; photographs and artistic works; encyclopedia, textbooks, rare books, and documents; and many other items. These vast collections and libraries testify to an ambitious vision of the research university as a place where knowledge is accumulated, shared, and disseminated through teaching, exhibition, and publication. Today, two hundred years after the university’s founding, museums, libraries, and archives continue to be an important part of U-M, which maintains more than twenty distinct museums, libraries, and collections. Viewed from a historic perspective, they provide a window through which we can explore the transformation of the academy, its public role, and the development of scholarly disciplines over the last two centuries. Even as they speak to important facets of Michigan’s history, many of these collections also remain essential to academic research, knowledge production, and object-based pedagogy. Moreover, the university’s exhibitions and displays attract hundreds of thousands of visitors per year from the campus, regional, and global communities. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs of these world-renowned collections, this book will appeal to readers interested in the history of museums and collections, the formation of academic disciplines, and of course the University of Michigan.

Author: Walter N. Koelz
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 093220693X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: PAOLO. COGNETTI
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781529112740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook, mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of The Snow Leopard. Written in 1978, Matthiessen's classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer. Without Ever Reaching the Summit combines travel journal, secular pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti's own bestseller, The Eight Mountains. An investigation into the author's physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth.

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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Kerstin Barndt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130277
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Comprehensive overview of the University of Michigan's Museums, Libraries, and collections

Author: Gabriela Krist
Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien
ISBN: 3205202678
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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The Nako temple complex from the 12th century is an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism not anymore preserved in today’s Tibet. Endangered by the rough environment, improper treatment and frequent earthquakes, the outstanding monuments were re-discovered by scholars from Austrian universities in the 1980s. The transdisciplinary research project carried out over more than 20 years led to in-depth studies, preservation and model-like conservation of the temples and their artworks.

Author: Ukesh Raj Bhuju
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Category : Biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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