Reflections on the Development of Ethnological Knowledge
On the Difference Between ad veritatem and ad hominem Argumentation, on Some Episodes of My Scholarly Career and the History of the Soviet Ethnography and Once More on the Book by N. M. Girenko «Sociology of a Tribe»
pp. 3-19
Theoretical Issues and Research Methodology
Polemical Problems of the Anthropogenesis Theory
pp. 20-35
The Man sand Ethnicity
pp. 35-49
Study of the Mass Consciousness Stereotypes by Psychosemantic Methods (the case of Georgian phraseology)
pp. 50-61
Ethnic Groups and Cutures
On the Problem of the Social Organization of the Polinesians
pp. 62-68
Matrilinearity in Patrilineal Society? The Cases of Kinship System Change Among the Mongols
pp. 68-77
The Flower of Suffering. On the Symbolical Meaning of the Word «Lale» in Turkish- Persian Mystic Poetry
pp. 77-87
Sufic Symbolism and Folk Beliefs (a commentary to the article of L I. Melikova)
pp. 88-91
Shamanic Zikr in the Underground Chamber of Muzlumkhan-sulu
pp. 91-96
The Mythological Ideas of the Russian People at Present and in the Past (Russian Folktales and the Stories About UFO)
pp. 97-110
Some Features of the Mermaid Image in the Eastern Slav Folklore
pp. 111-121
To the Interpretation of the «Pagan Days»
pp. 122-129
The History of Etnography
M. T. Markelov and Ethnographic Studies of the Finno-Ugric Peoples
pp. 130-138
The Embroidery by the Mari People
pp. 138-143
V. V. Passek and His «Ocherki Rossii»
pp. 144-149
News from Museums
News from the Ethnographical Cabinet of the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Science
pp. 150-155
Conferences
The Ethnography of a Peasant Household
pp. 156-159
Modernity and the Meanings of Traditionalism
pp. 160-163
Reviews
The Russian Usurpers
pp. 164-165
Our Anniversaries
N. A. Butinov. To the Eightieth Anniversary
pp. 166
K. V. Chistov. To the Seventy Fifth Anniversary
pp. 167-168
Obituary
B. V. Andrianov
pp. 169-170
Index for 1994
pp. 171-174