Number 4, 2009

The Study of Identity

The Pomor Idea: Emergence and Development

S. A. Tulaeva

Toward the Issue of Modern Identity of the Gagauz of Moldova

N. V. Anikin

“Finnish Honesty” in Nineteenth-Century Russian Popular Scholarly Literature: On the Issue of Shaping an Ethnic-Cultural Stereotype

M. V. Leskinen

Ethnographic Studies of Religion

Islam as a Factor in the Religious Life of the Dagestan Republic

M. I. Drambian

Pagan Deities and Demons of the Andalal Avars

R. I. Seferbekov

Northern Buddhism Conceptions of Birth in Shambhala

A. M. Strelkov

History of the Discipline

What Interested Russian Ethnographers in Latin America?

E. G. Alexandrenkov

N.A. Yanchuk: At the Beginnings of “Ethnographic Review”

K. M. Turyinskaia

From the History of Ethnographic Education in Leningrad / St. Petersburg University

V. A. Kozmin

Articles

About Terms Denoting Ethnic Categories

I. V. Vlasova

Metamorphoses of Kinship among the Tuvan

C. Stepanoff

El Coco and His Friends: The Past and the Present in the Mythology of Spanish Children

E. J. Vercher Garcia,  N. S. Makeeva

Family Law among the Siberian Tatar in the 18th – early 20th Centuries

G. T. Bakieva

Museums

Buddhist Cult Objects from G.F. Midler and I. Jährig’s Collections in the MAE RAS Funds

D. V. Ivanov

Reviews

Review of Istoriia britanskoi sotsial’noi antropologii (History of British Social Anthropology), by A.A. Nikishenkov. St. Petersburg, 2008

A. L. Elfimov

Review of Fol’klor i sovremennost’ (Savushkinskie chteniia). IV-V. Materialy Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii (Folklore and Modernity [The Savushkin Readings]. 4-5. Materials of Russian National Applied Studies Conference). Moscow, 2007

L. N. Pushkarev

Review of Etnos i natsiia v usloviiakh globalizatsii: opyt i pretsedenty ATR (Ethnos and Nation in the Globalization Context: Experiences and Cases of the Asia-Pacific Region). Vladivostok, 2008

A. N. Yamskov

Review of Finno-ugorskie narody Rossii: vchera, segodnia, zavtra (Finno-Ugric Peoples of Russia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow). Syktyvkar, 2008

Y. P. Shabaev,  N. V. Shilov

Review of Islam na kraiu sveta. Istoriia islama v Zapadnoi Sibiri v 3 tomakh. T. I : Istochniki i istoriografiia (Islam at the Edge of the World: History of Islam in Western Siberia, in 3 Volumes. Vol. 1: Sources and Historiography). Tiumen, 2007; Islam v Astrakhanskom krae: istoriia i sovremennost’ (Islam in the Astrakhan Region: History and Modernity), by A.V. Syzranov. Astrakhan, 2007; Islam и stepnykh nogaitsev (Islam among the Steppe Nogai), by A.A. Yarlykapov. Moscow, 2008

S. N. Abashin

Review of Fol’klor narodov Severnogo Kavkaza: teksty, issledovaniia (Folklore of Peoples of Northern Caucasus: Texts, Explorations), by V.F. Miller. Moscow, 2008

Z. D. Dzhapua

In memoriam

Sevyan Izrailevich Vainshtein