Number 1, 2008

Special Theme of the Issue

Youth Subcultures of the Present Day Russia

(guest editor: D.V. Gromov)

Introduction: The Study of Youth Subcultures in Russia: The Current State of Research and Problems

D. V. Gromov

Role-Playing Games: A Case of the “Subculture” Socialization

D. V. Pisarevskaia

Street Theatre of the Youth Politics: Opposition Movements

D. V. Gromov

“Regular Doodes”: Teenager-Youth Street Gangs of Moscow

S. A. Stephenson

Microeconomics of Youth Subcultures: Strategies of Poverty

T. B. Shchepanskaia

Ideological and Territorial Communities of Youth: Megapolis, Town, Village

V. V. Golovin,  M. L. Lurie

Ethnographic Studies of Central Asia

Sacred Trees of Khodzhi Baror: Phytolatry and the Cult of Female Deity in Central Asia

O. V. Gorshunova

Contemporary Religious Consciousness of Russian Kazakhs and the Islam of Imams

E. I. Larina,  O. B. Naumova

Mourning Rites of Cleansing the Flouse and Lighting a Sacred Lantern among the Ismailites of Western Pamir

A. Z. Lashkariev

History of the Discipline

Toward a History of the “Permian Expedition” of U.T. Sirelius

A. E. Zagrebin,  V. E. Sharapov

Articles

Ethnicity and Federalism: The Case of Ethiopia

R. N. Ismagilova

Problems of Self-Identification of Finns in Recent Literature

N. V. Shlygina

Symbolic and Signal Functions of Clothes and Household Objects in Wedding Rites among the Chuvash of the Ural-Povolzhie Region

I. G. Petrov

Bulgarians and Aspects of Interethnic Relations in Eastern Rumelia in the Ottoman Rule Period (15th -17th Centuries)

I. F. Makarova

Ethnogony of the Caucasus Peoples in Leonti Mroveli’s “Chronicles of Kartli Kings”

I. G. Semenov

Reviews

Review of Pravovoe regulirovanie semtino-brachnykh otnoshenii v russkoi istorii (Legal Regulation of Family and Marriage Relationships in Russian History), by N.S. Nizhnik. St. Petersburg, 2006

I. .E. Babich,  N. L. Pushkareva

Review of Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present. Ed. by J. Sahadeo, R. Zanca. Bloomington, 2007

S. N. Abashin

Review of Migratsiia naseleniia Adzharii i etnodemograficheskie problemy v polietnichnom regione (Migration of the Population of Adzharia and Ethnodemographic Problems in the Multiethnic Region), by T. Putkaradze. Batumi, 2005

L. T. Solovieva