Special Theme of the Issue
Ethnography of Islam in the Caucasus
(guest editor: V.O. Bobrovnikov)
Ethnography of Islam in the Caucasus
pp. 3-9
Brotherhood (Tariqa), Ethnicity and Politics in Daghestan
pp. 10-23
Sufi Sheikh Today
pp. 24-34
The Teaching of Kunta-Hajji Written Down by His Disciple
pp. 34-46
The Wird Congregations in Ingushetia
pp. 47-58
The Youth and Islamic Traditions in the Northwest Caucasus
pp. 59-74
Fates of Shiism in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
pp. 75-87
Ethnographic Studies of Religions among Povolzhie and Ural Peoples
Conversions among Muslim Tatars of Simbirsk Region in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
pp. 88-96
Rites of the Pagan Chuvash of Tatarstan
pp. 96-115
Traditional Beliefs of Zakamie Udmurts: A Historiography of the Issue
pp. 116-126
A Cult of Muslim Saints in the Astrakhan Region
pp. 127-143
From Archives
Soviet Ethnographers on “National Politics” in the USSR: A Commentary to Document
pp. 144-145
Contemporary Processes of National Development of Peoples of the USSR: A Memo to the Central Committee of the CPSU
pp. 146-160
A Note on the Peoples of the USSR That Had Preserved Survivals of Kin-Tribal Lifeways Before the Establishment of the Soviet Power
pp. 161-164
Book Reviews
Review of Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, by F. Hirsch. Ithaca, 2005
pp. 165-168
Review of Vydaiushchiesia otechestvennye etnologi i antropologi XX veka (Remarkeble Domestic Etnologists and Anthropologists of the 20th Century), ed by V.A. Tischkov, D.D. Tumarkin, Moscow, 2004
pp. 169-175
Review of Khristianskoe i yazycheskoe v dialoge kul’tur (The Christian / Pagan in the Dialog of Cultures), by E.O. Plekhanova. Izhevsk, 2003
pp. 175-177
Review of Russkie starozhily Sibiri: Sotsial’nye I simvolicheskie aspekty samosoznaniia (Russian Old-Timers of Siberia: Social and Symbolic Aspects of Identity), by N.B. Vakhtin, E.V. Golovko, and P. Schweitzer. Moscow, 2003
pp. 177-181
Review of Vozrastnoi simvolizm v kul’ture kalendarnogo prazdnika russkogo naseleniia Sibiri: XIX – nachalo XX veka (Age Symbolism in the Culture of Calendar Feast among the Russian Populations of Sibe- ria: The Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries), ed. by I.N. Gemuev. Novosibirsk, 2004
pp. 181-184
Review of Shugnantsy (The Shugnan), by T.S. Kalandarov. Moscow, 2004
pp. 185-187
On the Journal's Website
pp. 188
Errata
pp. 188
In memoriam
lzmail Nukhovich Gemuev (1942-2006)
pp. 189
Natalia Vasilievna Taranovskaia (1929-2006)
pp. 190-191