Number 4, 1999

Theory and Methodology

Nationalism and nation

S. E. Rybakov

Ethnos and Culture

Old and new interpretations of some family-marriage customs of the peoples of the Caucasus

Kh. M. Dumanov,  Ya. S. Smirnova

Ethics and law in medieval Ossetia

F. Kh. Gutnov

Kamen’ Dyrovatiy (symbolics of cave sanctuaries and of cult bow shooting)

I. L. Kyzlasov

Grass potions and wonder roots… (mythological ideas concerning vegetable paraphernalia of medicine men)

N. A. Krinichnaya

Cook’s collection at the Kunstkamera of Peter the Great: myth and reality

L. A. Ivanova

On the origins of Tlingit cloaks from J. Cook’s collection

S. A. Korsun

Ethnos, Society and the State

Formation of the Kazan khanate: ethnic and social aspects

B. L. Khamidullin

Russian immigration in the U.S.A. as reflected in American statistics

E. L. Nitoburg

Evangelical-Lutheran church of Ingria and its role in the life of the Finnish Ingermanlanders

O. E. Kazmina,  N. V. Shlygina

From History of Science

The brown shadow over German ethnology

G. E. Markov

A historian of the Russian Far East (to the 80th anniversary of B.P. Polevoy)

B. N. Komissarov,  A. Ya. Massov

Eight letters of V.Ya. Propp to G.A. Nosova

Conferences and Seminars

Eighth onomastics conference on the Volga area

R. Sh. Dzharylgasinova,  V. I. Suprun

Third conference on the ethnography of the Altai and adjacent territories

M. A. Demin,  T. K. Scheglova

Ethnoarchaeological seminars in Ufa city and St. Petersburg

M. A. Korusenko,  N. A. Tomilov

Reviews

Этнические меньшинства в современной Европе. М., 1997

A. S. Myl'nikov

Воспоминания о М.К. Азадовском. Иркутск, 1996

N. E. Mazalova,  K. V. Chislov

А.Г. Селезнев. Барабинское татары: Истоки этноса и культуры. Новосибирск, 1994

А. Р. Zen'ko

Anniversaries

List of major works by A.A. Zubov

List of major works by V.I. Kozlov

List of major works by M.Ya. Meltz