Number 2, 2009

Special Theme of the Issue

Anthropology of Money

(guest editor: S.P. Tiukhteneva)

“Let’s Have Much Money!”

S. P. Tiukhteneva

The Semantics of Signs about Money: Means of Managing Money Energy

N. V. Aksenova

“Twenty Kopecks Is Seventy Money”

E. P. Bakaeva

Money Is Paper; Human Being Is Gold

S. P. Tiukteneva

Money in the Buryat Cultural Tradition

M. S. Romanova (Saidukova)

Articles

The Red Corner: On the Origins and Semantics of the Sacred Locus (Based on Northern Russian Materials)

N. A. Krinichnaia

Sheikh Tantavi on the Russian Orthodox Tradition (Drawn on Materials of the “Description of Russia” Treatise)

M. V. Mints

Ceremonies of Incorporation and Separation of the Child as Rites of Passage among the Datogo of Northern Tanzania

M. L. Butovskaya,  V. N. Burkova

The Eveny of the Magadan Region: Toward the Issue of Ethnonymy

L. N. Khakhovskaia

The Image of Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Geopolitical Changes

I. A. Snezhkova,  N. P. Moskalenko,  E. Y. Chebaniuk

Language and Ethnicity: Discussions on Language Policies in Finno-Ugric Regions

Y. P. Shabaev,  N. V. Shilov,  V. N. Denisenko

Museums

“Vedomost’ redkostiam, otdannym iz Muzeuma byvshago Gosudarstvennago Admiralteiskago Departamenta v Imperatorskuiu Akademiiu Nauk” (Characteristics, Dating, Contents)

L. A. Ivanova

Reports

The Symbolic Component of the Sex Culture of Eleventh-Thirteenth Century Russia

V. V. Dolgov

Ethnic-Linguistic Situation in Multiethnic Regions of Georgia (Kvemo Kartli)

Т. К. Putkaradze,  Z. R. Burkadze

Reviews

Review of Vzgliad na gortsev. Vzgliad s gor: Mirovozzrencheskie aspekty kul’tury i sotsial’nyi opyt gortsev Dagestana (A View on Highlanders. A View from Highlands: Worldview Aspects of the Culture and Social Experience of Dagestan Highlanders), by Y. Y. Karpov. St. Petersburg, 2007

I. L. Babich,  L. T. Solovieva

Review of Uil’ta Sakhalina: Bol’shie problem malochislennogo naroda (Uilta of Sakhalin: Big Problems of a Small People), by L.I. Missonova. Moscow, 2006

A. B. Spevakovskii

Review of Osnovy etnologii: Uchebnoe posobie (Basics of Ethnology: A Study Textbook), ed. by V.V. Pimenov. Moscow, 2007

T. B. Uvarova

Review of Chechentsy v istorii, politike, nauke i kul’ture Rossii: issledvaniia i dokumenty (Chechens in the History, Politics, Scholarship, and Culture of Russia: Studies and Documents), ed. by K.V. Turkaev. Moscow, 2008

I. G. Kosikov

Review of Dary vozhdiam (Gifts to Leaders), ed. by O. Sosnina, N. Ssorin-Chaikov. Moscow, 2006

A. A. Belik

Review of Hirten in Kontakt. Sprachund Kulturwandel ehemaliger Wanderhirten (Albanisch, Aromunisch, Griechisch) // Balkanologie. Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft/Hrsg, von T. Kahl, M. Metzeltin, G. Schubert, C. Voss. Band 2. Wien; Berlin, 2007

A. A. Novik

Review of Obriadovaiapoeziia kalmykov. Sistema zhanrov,poetika (Ritual Poetry of the Kalmyk: The System of Genres and Poetics), by T.G. Bordzhanova. Elista, 2007

A. A. Burykin,  A. M. Reshetov

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In memoriam

Eduard Lvovich Nitoburg