Number 4, 2005

Special Theme of the Issue

Burkhanism

(guest editor: D.A. Funk)

In Place of an Introduction

D. A. Funk

On the Burkhanist Movement in Altai in 1904-1905

N. V. Yekeev

Burkhanism in Highland Altai

L. I. Sherstova

Ethnic Consolidation and Generational Continuity in Research on Burkhanism

N. A. Tadina

The Influence of Mongolian Buddhism on the Formation and Development of Burkhanism in Altai

V. K. Kosmin

A “Japanese Trace” in Altai Burkhanism: Fiction or Reality?

S. P. Tiukhteneva

The Teleut Version of Burkhanism

E. P. Batianova

Ethnos and Culture

Ethnocultural Processes among the Tuvans of Mongolia and China

M. V. Mongush

The Khormusta Mountain Cult in Buiyatia

B. S. Dugarov

History of the Discipline

German Ethnology at the End of the Millennium: A Crisis or a New Beginning?

G. E. Markov

An Unknown Page from D.K. Zelenin’s Life

A. M. Reshetov

The Pioneer of Albanian Ethnography (the 90″ Anniversary of Rrok Zojzi)

Y. V. Ivanova

Reviews

Review of Traditsionnye kul’tury Severnoi Ameriki kak tsivilizatsionnyi fenomen (Traditional Cultures of North America as a Civilization Phenomenon), by E.A. Okladnikova. St. Petersburg, 2003

Y. E. Berezkin

Review of Traditsionnye kul’tury Severnoi Ameriki kak tsivilizatsionnyi fenomen (Traditional Cultures of North America as a Civilization Phenomenon), by E.A. Okladnikova. St. Petersburg, 2003

A. A. Burykin

Review of Fragmented Ties: Salvadorian Immigrant Networks in America, by C. Menjivar. Berkeley, 2000

E. G. Alexandrenkov

Review of Problemy etnografii i istorii kul’tury narodov Aziatsko-Tikhookeanskogo regiona (Problems of Ethnography and Cultural History of Asia-Pacific Region Peoples), ed. by A.M. Reshetov. St. Petersburg, 2004

A. A. Sviridov

Review of V Novom Svete, ili istoriia russkoi diaspory na Tikhookeanskom poberezhie Severnoi Ameriki i Gavaiskikh ostrovakh (In the New World, or a History of the Russian Diaspora on the Pacific Coast of the North America and Hawaii), by A.A. Khisamutdinov. Vladivostok, 2003

E. L. Nitoburg

Review of Ildikö Lehtinen. Marien mekot. Volgasuomalaisten kansanpukujen muutoksista. Helsinki, 1999

N. V. Shlygina

Review of Dobuddiiskie verovaniia kalmykov (Pre-Buddhist Beliefs of the Kalmyk), by E. Bakaeva. Elista, 2003

A. O. Bulatov

Review of Zhizn’ po vere: Tikhvinskie karely-staroobriadtsy (Living by Belief: The Tikhvin Karelians-Old Believers), by O.M. Fishman. Moscow, 2003

E. B. Smilianskaia

Review of Bronislav Pitsudskii. Materialy dlia izucheniia ainskogo yazyka i fol’klora (Materials for the Study of Ainu Language and Folklore), ed. by M.M. Prokofiev. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2004

M. M. Khasanova

On the Journal's Site

In Memoriam

Oksana Ruvimovna Budina