Special Theme of the Issue
Folklore and Mythology of the Old and New World in the Comparative Historical Perspective
On Mythology
[O mifologii]
pp. 5-12
The “Beast Sharabha” and the Problems of Indo-Aryan Prehistory
[“Zver’ Sharabkha” i problemy predystorii indoariev]
pp. 13-23
Transparent People: Areal Spread of Some Concepts of Beauty in the Old World
[Prozrachnye liudi: areal’noe rasprostranenie nekotorykh predstavlenii o krasote v Starom Svete]
pp. 24-39
The Creation of People in the Mythology of the Ancient Maya
[Tvorenie liudei v mifologii drevnikh maiia]
pp. 40-55
The Giants of Eurasia: From Myth to History
[Velikany Evrazii: ot mifa k istorii]
pp. 56-64
Physical Anthropology
A Craniometric Study of the Ancient Preceramic Population of Cuba
[Kraniometricheskaia kharakteristika drevnego naseleniia Kuby dokeramicheskoi kul’tury]
pp. 65-82
Early Yakut Burials in the Flexed Position as a Historical and Ethnographic Source
[Ranneiakutskie pogrebeniia so skorchennym trupopolozheniem na boku kak istoriko-etnograficheskii istochnik]
pp. 83-98
Spaces, Borders, Communities
Territoriality, Ethnicity, and Administrative and Cultural Borders: The Komi-Izhemtsy (Izvataz) and Komi-Permyak as the “Other” Komi
[Territorial’nost’, etnichnost’, administrativnye i kul’turnye granitsy: komi-izhemtsy (iz’vatas) i komi-permiaki kak “drugie” komi]
pp. 99-114
Contemporary Muslim Space in Moscow: North Caucasian Dhikr and Central Asian Religious Practices
[Sovremennoe musul’manskoe prostranstvo Moskvy: severokavkazskii zikr i sredneaziatskiie religioznye praktiki]
pp. 115-130
Neighborhood Community in a Balkan City: Between Memory and Spatiality
[Sosedskoe soobshchestvo v balkanskom gorode: mezhdu pamiat’iu i prostranstvennost’iu]
pp. 131-146
Research Articles
Culture of Childbirth and Obstetrics in Contemporary Western Historiography (1975-2015)
[Rodovspomozhenie i kul’tura detorozhdeniia v noveishei zarubezhnoi istoriografii (1975-2015)]
pp. 147-163
The Making of a Description of Highlanders in the Early 1830s: On the History of Ethnographic Studies of the Caucasus
[O sostavlenii opisaniia gorskikh narodov v nachale 1830-kh godov: k probleme istorii etnograficheskogo izucheniia Kavkaza]
pp. 164-173
A Master of Historical Reenactment on Stage and in Real Life
[Master istoricheskoi rekonstruktsii na stsene i v zhizni]
pp. 174-189
Reviews
Review of Ipostasi smekha. Ritual. Traditsiia i yumor [Facets of Laughter. Ritual. Tradition and Humor], by Y.A. Artemova
pp. 190-192