Special Theme of the Issue
Museum Anthropology
(guest editor - V.A. Shnirelman)
Introduction to a Discussion: Historical-Ethnographic Museum: Presenting a Tradition or Representing a Construct?
pp. 3-8
Museum and the Construction of Social Memory: A Cultural Studies Approach
pp. 8-26
Ethnographic Museum and the “Rationalization of a System”
pp. 26-43
The Boyar Everyday, the Russian Spirit, and the Mastering of the Past in a History Museum
pp. 43-51
Representation of the History and Culture of the Azov Region Greeks at the Donetsk Region Museums
pp. 51-59
Dardania Revived: The History of a New State in the Kosovo Museum Exposition
pp. 59-68
Arkaim Reservation: Particularities of the Relationship between the Museum and the Society
pp. 69-77
Reboot of Memory
pp. 78-91
European Language Charter and Russia
(guest editor - S.V. Sokolovski)
Introduction: The European Language Charter in Russia
pp. 92-94
On the International Experience of Implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
pp. 94-102
Support for Language Diversity in the Russian Federation
pp. 102-115
Ways of Using Census Data for the Implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Russia
pp. 115-131
On the Present State of Languages of Smaller Turkic Peoples of Southern Siberia (in the Context of Applicability of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages)
pp. 132-140
Articles
Concepts of Light and New Generation of Children in Calendar Rites of the Russians. Christmas – New Year
pp. 141-157
Mother of God, Moscow, and Some Directions of Religious-Political Life of Russia
pp. 158-170
Orthodox Monastic Women Elders in Russia
pp. 171-188
The Contemporary Chinese’s Conceptions of the Russian People and Its Main Traits
pp. 189-200
Reviews
Review of Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist, by S. Kan. Lincoln, 2009
pp. 200-204
Review of Byval’shchina: Byt i narodnye povestvovaniia lipovan Bukoviny (True Story Told: The Everyday and Folk Narratives of the Lipovans of Bucovina), by A. Anfimova. Bucharest, 2008
pp. 205-207
Review of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, by P. Rabinow, G.E. Marcus, J.D. Faubion, T. Rees. Durham; London, 2008
pp. 208-211
Review of Vizual’naia antropologiia: nastroika optiki (Visual Anthropology: Tuning the Optics), ed. by E. Yarskaia-Smirnova, P. Romanov. Moscow, 2009
pp. 211-214
Review of Kul’tura i byt avstroneziiskikh narodov (Istoriia kollektsii i ikh sobirateli) (The Culture and the Everyday of Austronesian Peoples [History of Collections and Their Collectors]). St. Petersburg, 2007
pp. 214-216
Review of Chechentsy i ingushi v Kazakhstane: Istoriia i sud’by (The Chechen and Ingush in Kazakhstan: History and Destinies), by Z.A. Yermekbaev. Almaty, 2009
pp. 217-218
Review of Chukotskii etnos: genesis i krizis (Chukotka Ethnos: Genesis and Crisis), by T.A. Brachun, V.K. Sakhibgoriaev. Magadan, 2009
pp. 219-221