Number 3, 2007

Special Theme of the Issue

Anthropological Studies of Begging

(guest editor: M.L. Butovskaya)

Introduction: Begging as a Universal Phenomenon of Human Culture

M. L. Butovskaya

Beggars as an Urban Subculture: The Stability of the Relationship between the Beggars and the Society in Historical Perspective

M. L. Butovskaya,  M. A. Vanchatova

Beggary in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

I. Y. Diakonov

Texts of Moscow Beggars

M. V. Akhmetova

Schools, Approaches, Concepts

The Notion Ethnie in the French Scholarly Tradition and Its Political Use

E. I. Filippova

Studies in Physical Anthropology

An Upper Paleolithic Finding from Arene Candide (Italy)

T. S. Balueva,  E. V. Veselovskaya,  V. Formicola,  S. V. Drobyshevskii

Ethnography of North America

The Ethnic Composition of Newcomers in “Russian America”

A. V. Grinev

One Hundred Years in America: South Asians in the USA

I. Y. Kotin

Mongolian Studies

The Symbolism of “Black Horsemen” in Shamanic Songs of the Buryat

L. S. Dampilova

The Motherland Concept in the Culture of Mongolian Peoples

M. M. Sodnompilova

Notes and Surveys

Information on Information in Russian Ethnology

T. B. Uvarova

Agrarian Relations among the Balkar during the Second Half of the Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries

E. G. Muratova

Turkic-Speaking Greeks of the Azov Sea Region

V. V. Baranova

Kinesic Movements in Korean Etiquette: Traditional Bow Chol’ and Its Versions

D. A. Samsonov

Reviews

Review of Moskva rubezha XIX i XX stoletii. Vzgliad v proshloe izdaleka (Moscow at the Turn of the 19 th -20 th Centuries: A Look from Afar), ed. by P. II’in and B. Ruble. Moscow, 2004

S. A. Arutiunov

Review of Teleutskii fol’klor (The Teleut Folklore), ed. by D.A. Funk. Moscow, 2004

A. A. Burykin

Review of Feniks izpepla? Sibirskii shamanism na rubezhe tysiacheletii (A Phoenix from the Ashes? Siberian Shamanism at the Turn of the Millenium), by V.l. Kharitonova. Moscow, 2006

E. P. Bakaeva

Review of Chuvashskii kostium ot drevnosti do sovremennosti (The Chuvash Dress from Old Days to the Present), by V.V. Nikolaev, G.N. Ivanov-Orkov, V.P. Ivanov. Moscow, etc., 2002

G. A. Komarova

Review of Das Leben ist keine Himbeere: Perspektiven Jugendlicher in Kaliningrad, by К. Salein. Munster, 2003

K. V. Koriakin

Review of P.I. Kushner i razvitie sovetskoi etnografii v 1920-1950-e gody (P.I. Kushner and the Development of Soviet Ethnography in the 1920s-1950s), by S.S. Alymov. Moscow, 2006

A. A. Nikishenkov

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In memoriam

Boris Aleksandrovich Kaloev