Number 3, 2008

Special Theme of the Issue

Oil, Ecology, Culture

(guest editors: A.A. Sirina, A.A. Yarlykapov, D.A. Funk)

Introduction: Anthropology of the Extracting Industry

A. A. Sirina,  A. A. Yarlykapov,  D. A. Funk

Oil, Gas, and the Rights of Native Peoples in the Arctic: An Experience of Northern Canada

M. Nuttall

Extracting Industries and Native Peoples in Russia: Regulation, Participation, and Role of Anthropologists

E. Wilson,  K. Swiderska

The Right of Oil and the Rights of Native Peoples

N. I. Novikova

Thoughts on Sakhalin and Its Residents in the Light of Transnational Projects on Hydrocarbon

T. P. Roon

Anthropologists as Culture Brokers: The Case of Sakhalin

G. Guldin

The Impact of Activities of Extracting and Transportation Companies on Traditional Land Use: An Ecologist’s View

S. G. Shapkhaev

A Ghost of the Pipeline in the North Baikal

A. A. Sirina,  G. Fondahl

The Tunkin National Park vs. YUKOS: A History of One Opposition

N. L. Zhukovskaia

Oil and Nogai’s Migration to the North

A. A. Yarlykapov

Professional Communities of Migrant Muslims in Western Siberia

G. A. Khizrieva

“Astrakhangazprom” in the Lives of Nogai-Karagash of the Astrakhan Region

Z. K. Skrylnikova

Anthropology of Memory

The “War of Monuments” in Estonia: Ethnic Aspect

V. V. Poleshchuk

The Monument to Genocide Victims in the Context of Armenian Remembering Rites

H. T. Marutian

From Silence to Glasnost: Reconfiguration of the Memory of Armenian Loss in Post-Socialist Armenia

T. Darieva

Imagined Geography and Imperial Discourse: Practices of the Russian Empire in Crimea and the North-West Caucasus in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

D. V. Sen'

Ethnographic Studies of Central Asia

Tibetan Tulku – Who Are They? (On the Phenomenon of Reincarnation)

M. V. Mongush

Traces of the Mother-Progenitor Cult in the Buryat Traditional Culture

D. A. Nikolaeva

Reviews

Review of Etnokul’turnyi oblik Rossii: perepis’ 2002 goda (Ethnic-Cultural Image of Russia: The Census of 2002), ed. by V.V. Stepanov, V.A. Tishkov. Moscow, 2007

S. V. Sokolovski

Review of V.K. Arseniev – puteshestvennik i etnograf (V.K. Arseniev, Traveler and Ethnographer), by Y.V. Argudiaeva. Vladivostok, 2007

V. A. Lipinskaia

Review of Noveishaia istoriia islamskogo soobshchestva Rossii (Modern History of Islamic Community in Russia), by R.A. Silantiev. Moscow, 2006; Noveishaia istoriia islama v Rossii (Modern History of Islam in Russia), by R.A. Silantiev. Moscow, 2007

I. L. Babich