Number 4, 2005

Special Theme of the Issue

Burkhanism

(guest editor: D.A. Funk)

In Place of an Introduction

pp. 3-5

On the Burkhanist Movement in Altai in 1904-1905

pp. 6-21

Burkhanism in Highland Altai

pp. 22-37

Ethnic Consolidation and Generational Continuity in Research on Burkhanism

pp. 38-44

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

pp. 45-64

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

pp. 65-69

The Teleut Version of Burkhanism

pp. 70-85

Ethnos and Culture

Ethnocultural Processes among the Tuvans of Mongolia and China

pp. 86-102

The Khormusta Mountain Cult in Buiyatia

pp. 103-110

History of the Discipline

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

pp. 111-129

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

pp. 130-136

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

pp. 137-150

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

pp. 151-155

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

pp. 155-161

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

pp. 161-164

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

pp. 165-168

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

pp. 169-171

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

pp. 172-177

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

pp. 178-181

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

pp. 182-184

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

pp. 185-187

On the Journal's Site

pp. 188

In Memoriam

Oksana Ruvimovna Budina

pp. 189-191