Editorial
pp. 3-4
Reflections on the Development of Ethnological Knowledge
Soviet Ethnography: Overcoming the Crisis
pp. 5-20
The XXth Century: Ethnicity, Society, State
The Creation of National-Territorial Units in the Black-Sea Region and the Kuban
pp. 21-27
The Contemporary Ethnic Situation in Laos
pp. 27-39
Ethnological Theory
The Challenge of the Gift
pp. 40-60
Methods of Analysis
The Structural Analysis of the Ornament
pp. 61-71
Ethnographic Museums
How to Resolve the Problems of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in St. Petersburg?
pp. 72-77
Ethnographic Museums in Addis-Ababa
pp. 78-88
History of Thought
N. S. Trubetskoy and the Phcnomen of So-Called Eurasian Ethnography (the Preface to the Publication)
pp. 89-92
On the Turan Element in Russian Culture
pp. 92-106
Recently Discovered Manuscripts
Mountain Shoria and the Shor People
pp. 107-118
Portraits
B. O. Dolgykh: the Days and Deeds in the Life of a Devotee
pp. 119-129
The World as Seen by an Ethnographer
Dreams about Japan
pp. 130-141
Poetry
Siberia
pp. 142-145
Reviews
Z. Brzezinski. Post-Communist Nationalism
pp. 146-152
S.A. Kan. Symbolic Immortality. The Tlingit Potlach of the XIX c.
pp. 153-155
Giovanni Tassoni.Aspetti del Folklore Padano
pp. 155-157
Academic Life. Congresses, Conferences
Symposiums in 1992
pp. 158
«Ismail Gasprinskiy — an Outstanding Educator and Humanist»
pp. 158-166
Interdisciplinary Seminar «The Anthropology of Violence and Peacemaking»
pp. 166
«On the Sources of Russian America»
pp. 166-170
«The Contemporary Ethnic Processes in the USSR and Yugoslavia»
pp. 170-172
Obituary
D. M. Lang
pp. 173
Correspondence
pp. 174