Number 3, 1996

Theory and Methodology

Socio-economic entities, ethnoses, nations

Yu. I. Semenov

«Этническое самосознание» или «этническая идентичность»?

E. G. Aleksandrenkov

Ethnos and Culture

The evolution of the customs of hospitality among Kabardins (middle XIX—XX centuries)

I. L. Babich

От полинезийского каноэ до космического корабля (о Бене Финни и его исследованиях)

D. D. Tumarkin

The revival of Polynesian voyaging

B. Finney

The history of card games

M. Dummet

Vargan of XI—XII centuries from the Middle Irtysh

B. A. Konikov

Slavonic etudes

Russian family of the X—XVII centuries in the «new» and «traditional» demographic history

N. L. Pushkarieva

Ethnocultural history of the Ryazan region

L. N. Chizhikova

Unions of youth and initiation rites among ancient Slavs

V. G. Balushok

Religious beliefs and rituals

Sunnat-toi in a Fergana kishlak

V. N. Basilov

Gods and folk art pictures in India

N. R. Guseva

At the Mari pagan prayer

N. S. Popov

Scientific Life

Jubilee of the Polish society of folk studies

V. E. Gusev

The Conference «Komi-Permiaks and the Finn-Ugoric world»

Yu. P. Shabaev

Reviews

V. E. Gusev. Russian folk art: theoretical essays. St.-Petersburgh, 1993

A. I. Lazarev

Mords of Volga. Saransk, 1994

V. A. Balashov,  T. P. Fedianovich

Mastorava. Saransk, 1994

N. Th. Mockshin

History and culture of Ulchi in XVII— XX. St.-Petersburgh, 1994

A. V. Smoliak

B. A. Kaloev. Osetians of Mozdock. M., 1995

A. B. Dzadziev

N. N. Gratsianskaya. The Slovaks. Problems of Ethno-cultural History. M., 1994

L. P. Laptyeva

Anniversaries

Major Writings of N. Th. Mockshin

Major Writings of M. G. Rabinovich

Letters

The problems of historical and ethnographic studying of the Turc-speaking peoples of the Southern Siberia

D. A. Funk

Obituary

Ibraghim Saidov

Larissa Mikhailovna Ivleva