Number 1, 1996

50-th Anniversary of the Victory: events, recollections, opinions

Paying the Debts. Part III. Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences during the Great Patriotic War (conclusion)

A. M. Reshetov

Theory and Methodology

The term «race» and racial classification issue in modern physical anthropology

A. A. Zubov

Reflections on the Balkan Ethnology

G. Shubert

Ethnos and Culture

Survivals of primitive forms of gender relations in Russian peasantry’s customs in the XIX— early XXth century

Yu. I. Semyonov

On the origins of humour

A. G. Kozintsev,  M. L. Butovskaya

Germeneutic approach to the study of the origins of humour

Ya. V. Chesnov

Data on funeral practices of Iranian Zoroastrians in the XVII—XX centuries

M. B. Meitarchiyan

Ethnic Minorities

Assirians in Central Russia

S. S. Mikhailov

Applied Ethnology

Ethnic components of Russian teenagers self-consciousness

L. S. Sheinbaum

Fundamentals of the Legal Status of the Aboriginal Peoples of the North». Discussion of the Draft Law of the Russian Federation

Deborah L. Shindler,  Jane F. Colier

Political leaders speak about the nationalities question

Interview with I. V. Artemov and V. V. Zhirinovsky

Publications

Georgian agiography monuments: «David and Konstantin’s martyrdom» (ethnocultural aspect)

G. V. Tsulaya

History of the Science

Half a century of field work (V. A. Tishkov’s interview with E. P. Busygin)

Scientific Life

III Conference of European Association of social anthropologists «Perspectives of Morals, Knowledge and Power»

A. A. Istomin

The IEA RAN Learned Council’s Commemorative Meeting and S. A. Tokarev Readings (to the 10th Anniversary of His Death)

Yu. V. Ivanova

Reviews

Peter’s Kunstkamera Courier

V. N. Kislyakov

V. Drvoshanov. Кайларскиот Говор. Cкoпje. 1993

V. Kachev

Reader's Letters

Index for 1995