Number 5, 2007

Theoretical Issues

Two Traditions in Anthropology: American Geologism versus French Biologism

E. Désveaux

The First “Field” of Anthropologists: On National Styles of Science

C. Blanckaert

National Traditions and Metaphors of Science

R. Darnell

Response to Commenters

E. Désveaux

Ethnic Identity and Statistics

(guest editor: Y.V. Stepanov)

In Place of an Introduction: In Defense of Ethnic Statistics

V. V. Stepanov

The Republic of Komi: The Changing Faces of a Migrant Community

Y. P. Shabaev

Ethnic Minorities in Tatarstan Towns

T. A. Titova

Ethnic Structure and Demographic Problems in Georgia

T. Putkaradze,  Z. Vurkadze

Native Minorities of the North: Dynamics of Population According to Censuses

Z. P. Sokolova,  V. V. Stepanov

Multiple Identities between Theory and Politics (the Case of Dagestan)

V. A. Tishkov,  E. F. Kisriev

The Bashkortostan Phenomenon: From “Tragic Demography” to “Logical Reconfiguration of Groups’ Numerical Strength”

I. M. Gabdrafikov

Toward the 100th Anniversary of S.P. Tolstov

On the Path to the “Ancient History of the Peoples of the USSR”: Lesser-Known Pages of S.P. Tolstov’s Scholarly Biography

S. S. Alymov

Appendix: S.P. Tolstov’s article “Historical Roots of Friendship of Peoples of the USSR”; S.P. Tolstov’s Memo to the Department of Propaganda and Recruiting of TsK VKP(b)

A Great Scholar That Opened the Mamuna Academy to the World, or the Life Devoted to Science

I. Dzhabbarov

Reviews

Review of Kukovskaia kollektsiia Peterburgskoi Kunstkamery: problemy istochnikovedeniia i atributsii (St. Petersburg Kunstkamera’s Cook Collection: Problems of Studying Sources and Attribution ), by L.A. Ivanova. Moscow, 2005

A. Y. Massov

Review of Korennye narody v protsesse sotsial’nykh izmenenii (Native Peoples in the Process of Social Change), by M.S. Kuropiatnik. St. Petersburg, 2005

A. A. Burykin,  V. A. Popov

Review of Russkii khutor (opyt etnosotsiologicheskogo issledovaniia sel’skoi glubinki) [Russian Khutor (An Ethnosociological Case Study of a Rural Province)], by A.A. Khagurov. Krasnodar, 2004

K. V. Koryakin

Review of Ladinische Einblicke. Erzählte Vergangenheit, erlebte Gegenwart in den ladinischen Dolomitentälern, by M. Forni. San Martin de Tor, 2005

D. I. Meskhidze

Review of Narody Zapadnoi Sibiri: Khanty. Mansi. Sel’kupy. Nentsy. Entsy. Nganasany. Kety (Peoples of Western Siberia: Khanty. Mansi. Sel’kupy. Nentsy. Entsy. Nganasany.Kety), ed. by I.N. Gemuev, V.l. Molodin, Z.P. Sokolova. Moscow, 2005

V. V. Karlov,  E. V. Miskova

On the Journal Website

In memoriam

Rostislav Vasilievich Kinzhalov

Errata