Number 2, 2008

Special Theme of the Issue

Russian-Speakers in the "Near Abroad" through the Eyes of Russian Academy

(guest editor: N.P. Kosmarskaya)

Invitation to Discussion

N. P. Kosmarskaya

On the Identity of Russians in Central Asia

E. V. Abdullaev

Russians in the Orbit of State Politics

A. N. Alekseenko

Russians in the “Near Abroad”: What Is After “Adaptation”?

A. V. Mal'gin

“Who Are We? Where Are We From? Where Are We Going?”

V. I. Mukomel'

Russians of the “Near Abroad” in the View of a “Tashkent Russian”

Y. V. Podporenko

The Russian-Speaking of the “Near Abroad”: The Situation in Estonia

V. V. Poleshchuk

Reflections on Language, Ethnicity, and Other Analysis Terms in the Book “Children of Empire in Post-Soviet Central Asia”

M. Reeves

Few Words about Studying Russians of the “New Abroad”

S. S. Savoskul

A View from Afar

L. L. Fialkova

About Russians in Central Asia, and Not Only about Them

A. M. Khazanov

Response to Commenters

N. P. Kosmarskaya

Interview

Reflections on the Outcomes of a Career: A Conversation with Sevyan Izrailevich Vainshtein

V. A. Tishkov

History of the Discipline

N.V. Briullova-Shaskol’skaia, Ethnologist, Revolutionary, a Person of the Epoch

S. A. Kan

Статьи

Russians from China in Australia: Particularities of Adaptation (1950-1980)

G. I. Kanevskaya

Feeling the Land: Ecological Ethics among the Evenki and Eveny

A. A. Sirina

Critique

Ten Years of “Primitiveness” in Post-Soviet Russia: An Analysis of Some, Mainly Textbook-Oriented, Publications

O. Y. Artemova

M. Godelier’s “Enigma of the Gift” and Some Contemporary Problems

A. A. Belik

Reviews and Surveys

Review of Problemy obshchei i regional’noi etnografii (Problems of General and Regional Ethnography). St. Petersburg, 2007

V. N. Kisliakov

Review of Narody Zapadnoi Sibiri: etnograficheskii al’bom (Peoples of Western Siberia: Ethnographic Album). Moscow, 2007

A. P. Zen'ko

Review of Ukazatel’ tipicheskikh mest geroicheskogo eposa narodov Sibiri (Index of Typical Locations in Heroic Epics of the Peoples of Siberia), by E.N. Kuz’mina. Novosibirsk, 2005

D. A. Funk

Review of The Telengits of Southern Siberia: Landscape, Religion and Knowledge in Motion, by A. Halemba. N.Y., 2006

D. V. Maslov

Review of Antropologiia komi (Anthropology of Komi), ed. by G.A. Aksianova. Moscow, 2005

V. Y. Bakholdina

Review of La memoria lunga (Roma, 2002); II fuoco. Simbolismo e pratiche rituali (Palermo, 2002); I morti e il grano (Roma, 2006); Feste dell’alloro in Sicilia (Palermo, 2006), by I.E. Buttitta

M. E. Kabitsky

In memoriam

Tatiana Aleksandrovna Zhdanko

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