Number 4, 2007

Theoretical Issues

From Models to Strategies: Pierre Bourdieu and His Contribution to Ethnological Theory

P. O. Rykin

Bourdieu in America

J. D. Faubion

Pierre Bourdieu and Social Anthropology

A. Bensa

Culture and the Historical Development of Personality: Toward a Synthesis of L.S. Vygotsky’s and I.M. Dyakonoff s Theories in Ethnology

I. V. Ponomarev

Ethnography of Religion

Confessional Cartography in Russia

P. I. Puchkov

The Relationship between the Folklore Tradition and the Adaptation Processes in the Culture of Today’s Old-Believers (an Example of Eschatological and Utopie Tales)

E. S. Danilko

Discourse on Proselytism in Contemporary Russia

O. E. Kazmina

Calendar Rites of Tantra Kälacakra in the Tibetan Monastery of Gumbum

A. M. Strelkov

The Notions of Evil Spirits and Curse, and Cleansing Rites among Today’s Shamans of Tuva

K. V. Pimenova

The Islamization of the Chuvash in the Ural-Povolzhie Region from the Eighteenth through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

E. A. Yagafova

Personalia

Dragging the Chariot of Foolishness… Toward the 75th Anniversary of S.A. Arutyunov

S. I. Ryzhakova

Articles

Wooden Decorations of Houses in Ivanovo and Neighbour Villages (the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries)

N. V. Gromova

From the History of Studying Udmurt Clan Names

V. S. Churakov

Sports in the Cultural-Historical Perspective: Between the Sacred and the Profane

S. A. Abdulkarimov

Reviews and Surveys

Review of Khorovaia kul’tura Mordovii: fol’ klor, traditsii, sovremennost’ (Mordovian Culture of Choir Singing: Folklore, Traditions, the Present), by L.B. Boyarkina. Saransk, 2006

N. F. Mokshin,  Y. N. Sushkova

Review of Tuva: slovar kul’tury (Tuva: Dictionary of Culture), ed. by S. Markus. Moscow, 2006

N. P. Moskalenko

Review of Materialy k biograficheskomu slovariu assiriitsev v Rossii (XIX – seredina XX veka) (Materials for a Biographical Dictionary of Assyrians in Russia [the Nineteenth – Mid-Twentieth Centuries]), ed. by Igumen Stefan (Sado). St. Petersburg, 2006

S. S. Mikhailov

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In memoriam

Norair Badamovich Ter-Akopian

Natalia Nikolaevna Mamonova

Georgii Nikolaevich Simakov

Nurbulat Edigeevich Masanov