Number 3, 2010

Special Theme of the Issue

"Our" Ethnographer in the Russian Sacred "Field"

(guest editor - V.I. Kharitonova)

Introduction: Guardians and Researchers of the Sacred Culture: Dialogue or Confrontation?

V. I. Kharitonova

Working with Sacred Knowledge and Practices: The Methodologica Aspect

V. I. Kharitonova

The Dialogue of “Us” and “Others” in the Ethnographic Field

O. A. Shaglanova

Notions of the Reincarnation of Souls in the Traditional Culture of the Kyzym Khanty

T. V. Voldina

Nenets Woman in Science: On the Specificity of Studying the Sacred Realm

G. P. Khariuchi

“Whose Are You?” (The Specificity of Fieldwork among the Kalmyk in Connection with the Issue of Self-Identification)

E. P. Bakaeva

Articles

Artifacts of the Traditional Everyday-Life Culture of the Bukhara Jews in Museum Collections: The Particularities of Fulfillment

T. G. Emelyanenko

Spatial Behavior of Children and Teenagers (the Cases of Russians and Ossetians)

V. N. Burkova,  Y. N. Fedenok,  M. L. Butovskay

“The First Contact” Through the Eyes of the Aborigines of the Canadian Subarctic – tipachimuna and atanukana

D. V. Vorobiev

Identity in Fashion: Identification Mechanisms in the Semiotic Field of the Glossy Magazine

S. V. Alferov

History of the Discipline

S.A. Tokarev: The Beginning of the Career

Y. D. Anchabadze

Surveys

Some Aspects of the Religious Life of the Jews of the Middle Povolzhie

I. E. Kantserova

Reviews

Some Key Issues of Studying Hunter-Gatherers in the Context of General Theory of Evolution of Archaic Societies: A Review of Koleno Isava: Okhotniki, sobirateli, rybolovy (opyt izucheniia al’ternativnykh sotsial’nykh sistem), by O.Y. Artemova. Moscow, 2009

D. M. Bondarenko

Five Years Later: Review of Ten Issues of the Antropologicheskii forum Journal

S. N. Abashin

Review of Liudi Severa: prava na resursy i ekspertiza (Peoples of the North: Rights to Resources and the Expertise), ed. by N.I. Novikova. Moscow, 2008

S. P. Tiukhteneva

Review of Traditsionnaia meditsinskaia kul’tura narodov evropeiskogo severo-vostoka (konets XIX-XX vv.) (Traditional Medicine Culture of Peoples of the European North-East [the Late 19th – 20th centuries]), by I.V. Il’ina. Syktyvkar, 2008

Y. P. Shabaev

Review of Russkii Kharbin (Russian Harbin), by O.G. Goncharenko. Moscow, 2009

O. I. Kurto

Review of Cherkesskie dnevniki (Circassian Diaries), by Simon Dzhanashia. Tbilisi, 2007

L. T. Solovieva

Review of From Distant Tales: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Highlands of Sumatra. Newcastle upon Tube, 2009

A. O. Zakharov

With a 100-Year Interval. Review of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. The History of the Incas [1572] / Trans, and ed. by B.S. Bauer, V. Smith, with introduction by B.S. Bauer and J.-J. Decoster. Austin, 2007

N. V. Rakutz