Number 5, 2000

Theory and Methodology

On the Methodology of studying ethnic phenomena

S. E. Rybakov

Applied research in Western social/cultural anthropology

A. A. Nikishenkov

Ethnos and Culture

Culture of the Altaians – heir of the ancient civilization of the nomads of Central Asia

L. P. Potapov

To the Centennial of Orthodoxy in Korea

T. M. Simbirtseva

Russian names in the context of the discovery of the Western world by Vietnam (as based on the works of Vietnamese authors of the 18th – early 20th centuries)

N. I. Nikulin

Ethnopedagogical aphorisms

Z. B. Tzallagova

Attack of the Green Magic. Intercultural processes in the shamanism of Shuar (Ecuadorian Amazon region)

E. Mader

The N.N. Miklouho-Maclay’s collections from the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography – MAE and its source- evaluation and attribution problems (as shown on the examples of a «drum» and a «bier to support for a corps» from the Mangareva Island)

L. A. Ivanova

Ethnos, Society, State

On the modern ethnic situation of the Dolgans

V. P. Krivonogov

Origins of the present day’s culture and language situation in Kazakhstan

I. S.Savin

Culture associations of the ethnic minorities of the Buryat Republic

L. G. Iril'deeva

Russian Jews: confessional situation in the late 20th century

S. Ya. Кozlоv

History of Science

From the diary of a student of the Caucasus. II. Ethnographical field work in the North Caucasus

B. A. Kaloev

Scientific Life

«Ryabinin’s memorial paper presentations-99»

R. B. Kalashnikova

«Problems of modem ethnography in Udmurtia» (Zelenin’s memorial paper presentations)

E. N. Voronina,  M. V. Ivshina

Exhibition «Glorious path. 50 Years of the Chinese People’s Republic»

A. M. Reshelov,  A. Yu. Sinilzyn

Reviews

M.A. Васильев. Язычество восточных славян накануне крещения Руси. Религиозно-мифологическое взаимодействие с иранским миром. Языческая реформа князя Владимира. М., 1999 (M.A. Vasiliev. Eastern slavs’ Heathenism on the eve of the Baptism of Rus: Religious-mythological interaction with the Iranian world. The heathen reform of Prince Vladimir. Moscow, 1999)

S. A. Arutyunov

J.J. Masing. The coming of the Gods. An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak. Canberra, V. 1, V.2. 1997

E. V. Revunenkova

Jubilees

List of main works of N.M. Girenko

List of main works of B.N. Komissarov