Special Theme of the Issue
Muslim Headscarves
(guest editor: S.N. Abashin)
“Mystery Veil” (On Women’s Traditional Seclusion in Central Asia)
pp. 4-19
The French, the Muslim: What Is the Problem About?
pp. 20-38
The French Law Banning Religious Symbols in School and Maghrebin Womens’ Views on the Muslim Headscarf
pp. 39-57
Ethnos, society, state
Local Identity of Contemporary Russians: The Case of Pereslavl-Zalessky
pp. 58-73
The Ethnic Situation and Migration Processes in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
pp. 74-82
Events
Work of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, in 2004
pp. 83-108
The Discussion of Requiem po etnosu, by V.A. Tishkov (Materials from the Methodological Seminar at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS)
pp. 109-131
International Conference “The Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations: The Present State and Perspectives of Nomadism in the Globalized World”. On the Site of the Journal
pp. 132-137
On the Journal's Site
pp. 137
Book Reviews
Review of Politicheskaia antropologiia (Political Anthropology), by J. Balandier. Moscow, 2001; Anthropologie politique, by C. Rivière. Paris, 2000
pp. 138-141
On the New Journal “Anthropological Forum”
pp. 141-143
Review of Traditsionnaia material’ naia kul’tura sel’skogo naseleniia Kuby (Traditional Material Culture of Rural Populations of Cuba), ed. by E.G. Alexandrenkov, A.J. Garcia-Dalli. Moscow, 2003
pp. 144-148
Review of Istoriia etograficheskogo izucheniia tur-kmenskogo naroda v otechestvennoi nauke (History of Ethnographic Studies of the Turkmen People in Domestic Scholarship), by G.P. Vasilieva. Moscow, 2003
pp. 149-153
Review of Pobegi ban’iana: Migratsiia naseleniia iz Indii i for-mirovanie uzlov yuzhnoaziatskoi diaspory (Banyan Offshoots: The Migration of Population from India and the Formation of “Nodes” of South Asian Diasporas), by I.Y. Kotin. St. Petersburg, 2003
pp. 153-156
Anniversaries
Tatiana Aleksandrovna Zhdanko
pp. 157-158
Calendar of Memorable Dates in Ethnography and Anthropology for 2005
pp. 159