Special Theme of the Issue
Elites and Alphabets
(guest editor: S.V. Sokolovski)
Alphabets and Elites: Writing in Contemporary Russia as a Political Symbol
pp. 3-18
Who Is Afraid of the Latin?
pp. 19-26
The Constitutional Court Has Admitted It Has Been a Political Decisionе
pp. 27-29
Is It Possible to Speak of Latinization?
pp. 30-33
On the Issue of Restoring the Tatar Alphabet on the Basis of Latin Script
pp. 34-43
The Competition of Models: Tatar Representatives at the 1926 Turkology Congress in Baku
pp. 44-47
Nogai Alphabet: Cyrillics Passed the Test
pp. 48
Reversing Language Shift in Kazakhstan
pp. 49-71
1600 Years of Armenian Writing
pp. 72-84
Ethnography of Religion
The Old-Believers and the Orthodox in the Twentieth-Century Russian Village Society (Behavioral Strategies of Interaction)
pp. 85-104
National and Confessional Self in the Everyday Life of the Middle Volga Village in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
pp. 105-113
Legends about the Return from the World of the Dead (a Study of East Slavic Materials)
pp. 114-129
Initiation Rites in Mortuary-Burial Rituals
pp. 130-139
Ethnos and Culture
Semantic Features of the Unique Decoration of Two Eleventh-Thirteenth Century Elements of the Horse Harness from the North East Black Sea Region
pp. 140-156
Book Reviews
Review of Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 14, Southeast. R.D. Fogelson, ed. Washington, 2004
pp. 157-161
Review of Gardy: Katalog koUektsii muzeev Sakhalinskoi oblasti (Gards: Catalogue of Museum Collections of the Sakhalin Region), by LA. Samarin. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2004
pp. 161-163
Review of Litsa nenavisti: Antisemity i rasisty na marshe (Faces of Hatred: Anti-Semites and Racists on the Move), by V.A. Shnirelman. Moscow, 2005
pp. 164-166
On the Journal's Website
pp. 166
In Memoriam
Galina Petrovna Vasilieva
pp. 167-169
Index of Materials Published in the Journal in 2005
pp. 170-175