Number 2, 1990

National Processes Today

Autonomy or Home Rule?

A. I. Kuznetsov

The Noghays — Ethnic and Cultural Problems

K. P. Kalinovskaya,  G. Ye. Markov

Ethno-Cultural Situation in the Karachai-Cherkess Autonomous Region

S. A. Arutiunov,  G. A. Sergeyeva,  Ya. S. Smirnova

Articles

The Shaping of Contemporary Ethnic Situation in Northern Tadzhikistan

V. I. Bushkov

An Ancient Female Calendar

P. Ye. Riazanov

Interpreting the Kargopol Calendar-Embroidery

V. G. Vlasov

Totemistic Survivals and Tabooing among Arabian Tribes in VI—VII Centuries (by Ibn Hisham’s «The Life of Allah’s Messenger»)

R. K. Shidfar

Ethnic Notions of Bulgarian Scribes at the Early Time of the Ottoman Domination

I. F. Makarova

Dermatoglyphics of the Population of South Arabia

H. L. Heet,  V. S. Shinkarenko,  V. V. Naumkin

Discussions

Discussing L. Samoilov's Article «Labor Camp Ethnography»

How «Primitive» is Criminal Subculture?

G. A. Levinton

A Subculture behind Bars

Ya. I. Gilinsky

Communications

The Universe as Conceived by the Vainakhs and the Ossets

M. V. Kantaria

From the Life of the Ayanchins

B. Shirendyb

Our Anniversaries

List of Major Works by B. V. Andrianov, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to His 70th Birthday)

Academic Life

An All-Union Conference on Preparing the Series «Peoples of the Soviet Union»

L. I. Missonova

Two Conferences on Onomastics in Memoriam V. A. Nikonov

B.- R. Logashova,  T. P. Fedianovich

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

General Ethnography

A History of Primitive Society. The Age of Class Formation

S. A. Arutiunov

Yu. V. Pavlenko. Early Class Society: Genesis and Evolution Patterns

V. A. Shnirelman

Ph.К. Boch. Rethinking Psychological Anthropology. Continuity and Change in Study of Human Action

A. A. Belik

Peoples of the U. S. S. R.

M. G. Rabinovich. Ethnographic Essays on Russian Feudal City. Idem. Russian Feudal City: Sketches of Material Culture

V. P. Darkevich

L. M. Rusakova. Traditional Pictorial Arts of Russian Peasants Siberia

N. A. Minenko

Caucasian Ethnographic Collection. IX

S.-M. A. Khasiev,  Ya. V. Chesnov

Altyn-Aryg. The Khakass Heroic Epic

L. R. Kyzlasov

M. Beregovsky. Jewish Instrumental Folk Music

M. I. Vainshtein,  I. I. Zemtsovsky

Ancient Physical-Anthropological Types on the Territory of the U. S. S. R. as Identified by Anthropological Reconstruction

R. Ya. Denisova,  T. S. Balueva,  Ye. V. Veselovskaya,  G. V. Lebedinskaya,  A. P. Pestriakov

Peoples of Non-Soviet Europe

Song Poetry of the Voivodina Gypsies

Leksa Manush

Peoples of America

J. Н. Moore. The Cheyenne Nation. A Social and Demographic History

P. M. Kozhin

Peoples of Africa

I. Ye. Sinitsyna. Personality and Family in Africa

E. S. Lvova