Number 2, 2000

Theory and methodology

It’s Time to Look for a Common Language (the problem of integrating different ethnic theories and concepts)

I. Yu. Zarinov

Ethnographic Imagination in Sociological Research

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

How to Make Gender Speak?

N. L. Pushkareva

Discussions

The Historical Phenomenon of Diaspora

V. A. Tishkov

Ethnos, Nation, Diaspora

Yu. I. Semenov

Diaspora: It’s a Process

S. A. Arutyunov

Ethnos and Culture

Mythological Roots of Touvinian Shaman

M. B. Kenin-Lopsan

19th Century Russian Peasants’ Attitude to Wealth and Enterprise in the light of religious and moral notions and social practice

M. M. Gromyko

From the History of Georgian Hagiography. «Martyrdom of the Glorious Sufferer Queen Ketevan who was tortured to death in Shiraze city by the Unfaithful King of Persia Shah-Abbas»

G. V. Tzulaya

Attitude of Estonians to Mushrooms

A. Yurgenson

Turning Back to A.S. Pushkin

Along the Road of Myths (A.S. Pushkin and Russian Folk Tales)

S. V. Zharnikova

Songs and Romances on the Words of A.S. Pushkin’s Poems in Cheap Popular Prints

M. Ya. Meltz

Physical (Biological) Anthropology

Brief Outcomes of Anthropological Research on Central Asia

T. K. Khodzhayev

Scientific Life

Maklayev’s Readings, 1998-1999

P. L. Belkov

Fourth Siberian Readings «Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Siberia and the North»”

E. G. Fyodorova

III International Symposium «Ethnicity and Ethnic Mentality in Circumbaltic Area»

S. I. Ryzhakova

Reviews and Surveys

Белорусы / Отв. ред. В.К. Бондарчик, Р.А. Григорьева, М.Ф. Пилипенко. Серия “Народы и культуры”. М., 1998 (Byelorussians / Chief Ed. V.K. Bondarchik, R.A. Grigorieva, M.F. Pilipenko. «Peoples and Cultures» series. Moscow, 1998)

Yu. A. Labyntzev,  L. L. Schavinskaya

Яков Яковлевич Рогинский: человек и ученый. М., 1997 (Yakov Yakovlevich Roginsky — a Man and a Scholar. Moscow, 1997)

A. M. Reshetov

Obituary

M.S. Mukanov