Number 4, 1992

Reflections on the Development of Ethnological Knowledge

Ethnography: Does It Have a Future?

V. N. Basilov

The 20th Century: Ethnicity, Society, Policy

The Rise of Nation-State under Religious-Political Dualism (The Case of Senegal)

A. D. Savateev

Gender, Age, Marriage

Male and Female Age Initiations (A New Approach)

M. V. Tendryakova

Matrimonial Peasant Traditions in South Russian Provinces in the Late 19th Century

S. S. Kryukova

Modes of Marriage and Ritual Behaviour of the South Altaians (Late 19th —Early 20lh Century)

N. A. Tadina

Will an Argument Bear the Truth?

Comments on Z. P. Sokolova’s «Endogamy and Ethnos» («Ethnographicheskoe obozrenie» №3, 1992)

G. N. Aksyonova,  G. M. Afaitasieva

Ethnology: Ways of Development

Theoretical Aspects of German Volkskunde (Eearly 20th Century — 1933)

G. E. Markov

Portraits of Scholars

E. E. Blomkvist as a Student of Russian Ethnography

T. V. Stanyukovich

E. E. Blomkvist and Her Research on the Ural Cossacks

S. K. Sagnaeva

Discovering Old Writtings

The Prokofiev Family in Yanov Stan (Diaries from East Siberia in 1920s)

N. I. Gagen-Torn

In the Eyes of Ethnologist

A Trip to Ile-Ife (1st Essay)

N. B. Kochakova

A Journey to Peruvian Amazonia

I. Muniz-Besada

Our Anniversaries

List of Major Works by Sh. A. Bogina, Doctor of Historical Sciences (To Her 80th Birthday)

Congresses, Conferences, Symposiums

National Movement Patterns in Europe in 19—20th Centures

A. S. Mylnikov

Modern Problems of Ethology

M. L. Butovskaya

Folk Art: Problems of Today

I. Ya. Boguslavskaya

Folk Culture of the Russian North: «Primary» and «Secondary» Elements. Traditions and Innovations

A. A. Kuratov

Written Monuments as Ethnographic Sources

M. A. Rubtsova

Thesis Disputes

Theses Defended in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology in 1991

A. E. Ter-Sarkisyants

Reviews

Ethnocultural Development in the Volga and Ural Region in Soviet Time (Before the Mid — 1980s)

G. E. Markov

S. Lallukka.The East Finnic Minorities in the Soviet Union: An Appraisal of the Erosive Trends

E. A. Khelimsky

P.H. Stephenson. The Hutterian People: Ritual and Rebirth in the Evolution of Communal Life

V. M. Emelyanov

Obituary

T. V. Stanyukovich