Number 6, 2009

Special Theme of the Issue

Jewish Studies in Russia and Some Problems of Sociocultural Anthropology

(guest editor: E.E. Nosenko-Stein)

Introduction: Cultural Anthropology and Jewish Studies: Is Symbiosis Possible?

E. E. Nosenko-Stein

What Is “Jewishness”? A Social Anthropologist’s View

M. A. Chlenov

On the Collective Memory of Russian Jewry at the Turn of the Centuries: Preliminary Observations

E. E. Nosenko-Stein

The Integrative Aspects of the Jewish-Slavic Intercultural Dialogue (2004-2009 Fieldwork Materials)

О. V. Belova

House-Building Tradition of Podolian Shtetls in Practices and Memory

A. V. Sokolova

Mountain Jews: An Ethnic History

M. S. Kupovetsky

Russian Judaizers as a Textual Community: On the Scope of Applicability of Ethnic-Confessional Categories

A. L. Lvov

Jewish Groups and Types in M.A. Krol’s Memoirs (An Ethnographic-Literary Essay)

S. Y. Kozlov

Remembering a Scholar

N.N. Cheboksarov’s Contribution to Anthropology: The 100th Anniversary of the Scholar

G. A. Aksianova,  A. P. Pestriakov

N.N. Cheboksarov at the Origins of Museum Studies at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences

K. P. Kalinovskaia,  K. M. Turyinskaia

Articles

The Chuvash in the Intercultural Borderzone of Ural-Povolzhie

E. A. Yagafova

The Dagestan People: Facets of Identities (Ethnic-Linguistic and Social-Cultural Aspects)

M. M. Magomedkhanov

“Shamanism” in the Present Day Russia: Toward the Issue of Revivalism

V. I. Kharitonova

On Three Notes by F.K. Russov in Vedomost ‘ Redkostiam and Admiral M.P. Lazarev’s Collection from Oceania in MAE

L. A. Ivanova

Reviews

Review of Novye etnicheskie gruppy v Rossii: Puti grazhdanskoi integratsii (New Ethnic Groups in Russia: Ways of Civil Integration), ed. by V.V. Stepanov, V.A. Tishkov. Moscow, 2008

N. A. Zotova

Review of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939, by A. Shtersnshis. Bloomington, 2006

E. E. Nosenko-Stein

Review of Landshaft v kul’turnoi geografii (Landscape in Cultural Geography), by V.N. Kalutskov. Moscow, 2008

A. N. Yamskov

Review of Komi Severnogo Zaural’ia (XIX – pervaia chetvert’XX v.) (The Komi of the North Ural [19th – First Quarter of the 20th Centuries]), by N.A. Povod. Novosibirsk, 2006

Y. N. Kvashnin

Review of Traditsionno-bytovaiaprirodno-sredovaia kul’tura narodov Sibiri, ее mesto v etnologii i etnicheskoi ekologii (Traditional/Everyday Life and Environmental Culture of Peoples of Siberia, and Its Place in Ethnology and Ethnic Ecology), by A.I. Kazannik et al. Omsk, 2008

V. I. Razumov

Review of Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká / Russians in Tlingit America. The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804, ed. by N.M. Dauenhauer, R. Dauenhauer, L.T. Black. Seattle, 2008

E. S. Piterskaia

Index of materials published in the journal in 2009