Special Theme of the Issue
Anthropology of Professional Communities
(guest editors: P.V. Romanov, E.R. Iarskaia-Smirnova)
The World of Professions as a Field of Anthropological Research
pp. 3-17
Projections of Social Control in the Space of Profession
pp. 18-32
Manufacturing Concessions: Squeezing Out Workers by Nagging at General Motor’s Lordstown Assembly Plant
pp. 32-46
Game-Playing in Luxury Hotels: Autonomy, Identity, Consent
pp. 47-61
“Ten Minutes of Fear and You Are Home!”: The Everyday of Shuttle Taxi Bus Drivers
pp. 61-74
Anthropology of the Body
Toward the Issue of Positive and Negative Perceptions of Tattoos in Ancient Times
pp. 76-95
The Phenomenon of Women’s Tattoo in Dagestan
pp. 96-114
Articles
The Gagauz: Population Dynamics and Changes in Settling Patterns (the Second Half of the 20th – Beginning of the 21st Century)
pp. 115-133
The Wedding of the Dead among the Germans of Siberia
pp. 133-144
The Dwelling in the Traditional Burial Rite System of the Kyrgyz (the Case of Yurt)
pp. 144-159
Contemporary Buryat Joke in the Construction of Ethnic Realm
pp. 159-170
Surveys and Reviews
Anthropological Evidence of Ties of the Ancient Japanese with Peoples of the Continent during the Yayoi Period
pp. 171-176
Review of Natsionalizm v mirovoi istorii, ed. by V.A. Tishkov, V.A. Shnirelman. Moscow, 2007
pp. 177-180
Review of Starovery fedoseevtsy Viatskogo kraia, by V.K. Semibratov. Moscow, 2006
pp. 180-183
On the Journal's Website
pp. 184
Errata
pp. 184
In memoriam
Abram Isakovich Pershits
pp. 185-189
Evgenii Prokofievich Busygin
pp. 190-191