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... and traditional culture, the essay develops a number of episodes in Brumfield’s exploration and field photography in the various provinces of the North. The research and photographic fieldwork is part of a larger project undertaken by Brumfield to document photographically all aspects of Russian architecture...

... a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make (mainly) indigenous people...

..., built by a gentry family on the Sheksna River near Cherepovets (Vologda Province). This Western style was countered by a revival of traditional Russian styles for urban design in the late nineteenth century. This cultural direction is remarkably displayed in two large forest mansions constructed...

.... They are complemented by the Galskoy mansion, built by a gentry family on the Sheksna River near Cherepovets (Vologda Province). This Western style was countered by a revival of traditional Russian styles for urban design in the late nineteenth century. This cultural direction is remarkably displayed in two large...

... of emergency since 2004 in Thailand’s three southern Muslim-majority provinces. The analysis gauges the critical potential of interethnic intimacies in a situation in which violence is continuously perpetrated by a central state that defines itself as Buddhist. The coda thereby considers yet another...

... for the new El Dorado. In 2005 a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make...

... Chapter 3 opens the book’s geographical sweep, beginning with the Kola Peninsula in the far northwest of Russia and proceeding around the White Sea to the Mezen River in the north of Arkhangelsk Province. This region, known as the Russian North, contains the greatest examples of wooden...