Number 6, 2002

Ethnos and Culture

The South-Asian Element in Ethnic Mosaic of Multi-Cultural Canada

I. Yu. Kotin

«Orinoko lluslrado у Defendido» by J. Gumilla as an Ethnographic Source

E. G. Alexandrenkov

Calendar Motives in Kholmogor Ritual Pastry

T. A. Onuchina

Towards the Image of a Swan in the Kazakh Shamanism

R. Sh. Kitkashev

Serpents in the Ritual Systems of Various Peoples

N. P. Gordeev

Ethnоs, Society, State

Contemporary Religious Situation in Daghestan (the Process of Moslem Revival)

Z. M. Abditlgaiov

Jews in Moscow: a Demographic Account (XVth – mid-XXth cc.)

Yu. A. Snopov

History of the Discipline

The History of Anthropology

F. Boas

The History of «The History of Anthropology» by Franz Boas

I. V. Kuznetsov

Georgiy Alexeevich Menovschikov (Towards the Ninetieth Anniversary)

A. A. Burykin

Museums

Chronology of Events at the Russian Ethnographical Museum, 1980-2000

O. M. Fishman,  N. M. Kalashnikova

Events

International Inter-Disciplinary Symposium «Ecology and Traditional Magic Knowledge»

V. I. Kharitonova,  E. V. Revunenkova,  H. L. Edge,  S. Michaelson

A Seminar «Folk Culture of Siberia»

M. Ya. Meitz

International Conference «Peoples and Cultures of the Far East: A View from the XXI Century», towards the 140-year Anniversary of L.Ya. Sternberg

T. P. Roon,  A. A. Sirina

Session on the Results of IEA RAS Field Research

N. A. Dubova,  N. D. Pchclinlscva,  A. V. Frolova

Book Reviews

Чеченская демодернизация как урок истории. Рец. на: В.А. Тишков. Общество в вооруженном конфликте (этнография чеченской войны). М., 2002 (Chechen De-Modernization as а Lesson of History. Review of the book by V.A. Tishkov. Society in an Armed Conflict: an Ethnography of the Chechen War. Moscow, 2001)

T. S. Ilarionova

И.А. Калужская. Палеобалканские реликты в современных балканских языках. М., 2002 (L.A. Kaluzhskaya. Palco-Balkan Relicts in Modern Balkan Languages. Moscow, 2001)

Yu. V. Ivanova

Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia. An Exploration of the Comparative Method. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London, 2002

Yu. E. Beriozkin

Русский фольклор: Библиографический указатель. 1991-1995. СПб., 2002 (A Review of the Bibliographical Index «Russian Folklore»)

V. V. Golovin,  O. N. Ilyina

American Folk Culture and Identity. Bloomington; Indianapolis, 2002

S. A. Arutyunov,  A. E. Ter-Sarkisiants

О.И. Брусина. Славяне в Средней Азии. Этнические и социальные процессы. Конец XIX – начало XX вв. М., 2002 (O.I. Brusina. Slavs in Central Asia: Ethnic and Social Processes. End of the XIXth – Beginning of the XXth cc.)

A. N. Yamskov