What is Visible and What Is Hidden. Cultural Landscape of Kizhinga Town: Between Local Native Traditions and State Ideology
What is Visible and What Is Hidden. Cultural Landscape of Kizhinga Town: Between Local Native Traditions and State Ideology

Summary/Abstract: The author refers to the elements of cultural landscape (natural and architectural objects) of Russian town, Kizhinga. The most important questions he tries to answer are: how can places, objects and spaces coming from different symbolic orders create a coherent cultural space and how have the meanings and connotations of local spatial forms changed? What is the result of the clash between local native traditions and state ideology, 20th century Soviet style modernization, and attempts to recreate traditions and ethno-cultural identity in a small-town space at the turn of the 21st century.

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