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... The introduction presents the basic building practices that made Russia’s remarkable heritage of log architecture sustainable. It explores when and why Russians began to study and preserve the art of building in wood, a topic that leads to an overview of the author’s field work...

... Preservation of wooden architecture Russian traditional culture documentary photography ...

... in the Chelyabinsk region. Several of the urban wooden houses show elements of the Russian counterpart to art nouveau. The challenge of preservation of wooden structures is especially acute in urban areas. Perm Yekaterinburg Chelyabinsk wooden architecture in Kama River basin ...

... into Asia leads to the rugged Yekaterinburg territory. The chapter concludes with wooden architecture in the southern Urals in the Chelyabinsk region. Several of the urban wooden houses show elements of the Russian counterpart to art nouveau. The challenge of preservation of wooden structures is especially...

... Chapter 6 moves east from the Urals into western Siberia, beginning with the regions of Tobolsk and Tyumen and proceeding to Omsk, all in the Irtysh River basin. The loss and degradation of wooden architecture in these areas intensified in the late Soviet period and has accelerated since...

... The conclusion reflects on the paradox of traditional Russian wooden architecture (log structures) reflected in Russian culture today. Wooden structures, particularly in rural areas in Russia—and the United States during the 1930s—have been associated with poverty and social duress. Although...

... examining the surviving magnificent churches endowed by the Stroganovs from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the chapter includes photographs of traditional architecture in villages located in forests near the small Uftiuga River. The route then crosses to the left bank of the Dvina...

... A forceful intervention into contemporary politics, this chapter argues that the designations left and right must be preserved, as they are names for different relations to the political origin. Drawing on Schmitt’s genealogy of modern politics, the chapter argues that the real source...

... A forceful intervention into contemporary politics, this chapter argues that the designations left and right must be preserved, as they are names for different relations to the political origin. Drawing on Schmitt’s genealogy of modern politics, the chapter argues that the real source...

... of audiovisual archives from the vagaries of political whim. Reflecting on the archivist-activists who endured the collapse of various archives, the chapter concludes by conceptualizing archival survival as involving more than the material preservation of media. Philippine archival survival also entails...

... is the smaller Ferapontov-Nativity Monastery, with its miraculously preserved early sixteenth-century frescoes by one of medieval Russia’s greatest painters, Dionisy. The chapter concludes with Ustiuzhna on the Mologa River, a tributary of the Volga. This small town has a major landmark in the Church...

... Part I opens with a question on the role of “love” ascribed to narratives of enslavement. Chapter 1 examines the imagined racial geographies that informed architectural structures and urban spaces in the nineteenth century. Opening with the story of Khyzran, a Zanzibari woman who...

... linchpin in the system of indirect colonial rule. Under the institutional regime established by Viceroy Francisco de Toledo, they collected tribute, organized mita labor, and preserved local order for the Crown. In 1638, a century after the defeat of the Charka lords in Cochabamba, Fernando Ayra de...