Number 5, 2009

Diasporas, Religions

Ethno-Religious Groups of South Asian Origin in Three English Cities

C. Peach,  I. Y. Kotin

Bukhara Jews: The Destiny of a Diaspora

T. G. Emelianenko

Disciplinary Issues

Social Anthropology: Education, Discipline, Profession

P. V. Romanov,  E. R. Yarskaia-Smirnova

Studies in Historical Ethnography

On the Anthroponymy of South-Eastern Abkhazia’s Population

O. V. Maan

Kazakhs and Tea: Historical-Ethnographic Study

R. A. Beknazarov

The Dress of “Soviet Cossacks” in the Don of the 1930s

A. P. Skorik

Folklore Studies

Images of Island and Stone in the Russian Folklore Tradition: In Search of Semantic Origins

I. M. Denisova

On the Specificity of Performing and Studying Khanty’s Sacred Folklore

M. A. Lapina

Articles

The Origin of the Armenian People in the Context of Paleoanthropological Data

A. Y. Khudaverdian

Disgracing Punishments for Women in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Russia

N. L. Pushkareva

Metamorphoses of the Epithet “Jewish” in Dagcstanian Traditional Stories

I. G. Semenov

Reviews

A Unique Picture of Ainu’s Life 150 Years Ago; Review of Omskaia sensatsiia: Seriia akvarelei Byozana Khirasavy “Zhizn’ i obychai ainov” iz sohraniia Omskogo oblastnogo muzeiia izobrazitel’nykh iskusstv im. M.A. Vrubelia (Omsk Sensation: A Watercolor Series by Byozan Khirasava “Life and Customs of Ainu” from the Collection of the M.V. Vrubel’ Omsk Region Fine Arts Museum). Moscow, 2008

S. A. Arutyunov

New Works in Caucasus Studies: Review of Sviatye i mucheniki v istorii Gruzii (Saints and Martyrs in the History of Georgia), by G.V. Tsulaia. Moscow, 2006; Siluety Gruzii – 1 (Outlines of Georgia – 1), by G.V. Tsulaia. Moscow, 2007; Siluety Gruzii – 2 (Outlines of Georgia – 2), by G.V. Tsulaia. Moscow, 2008

Y. D. Anchabadze,  L. T. Solovieva

Review of Alutiiq Villages under Russian and U.S. Rule, by S. Luehrmann. Fairbanks, 2008

A. V. Grinev

Review of Inkeriläsiii siirtiimässä. Jussija Liisa Tenkkupäeväkirjat 1943-1944. Jyväskylä, 2008

N. V. Shlygina

Review of Interethnik im Wissenschaftsprozess. Deutschsprachige Volkskunde in Böhmen und ihre gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen, by P. Lozoviuk. Leipzig, 2008

К. V. Shevchenko

Review of Oeherki po material’noi kul’ture evenov Yakutii (konets XIX- nachalo XX v.) (Essays on Material Culture of Yakutia’s Eveny [late 19 th – early 20 th centuries]), by E.K. Alekseeva. Novosibirsk, 2003

L. N. Khakhovskaia

In memoriam

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Reshetov

Roza Fedorovna Nikol’skaia (Taroeva)