National Processes Today
Nationality Problem in the U.S.S.R.: In Quest for Explanations
pp. 3-15
Counter-Arguments against Arguments (On «Republican Economic Soviereignty and Ways of National Evolutions by L. S. Perepiolkin and O. I. Shkaratan)
pp. 16-28
Back to Issues Once Discussed (A Reply to S. V. Cheshko)
pp. 28-31
Articles
Ethno-Social Determinants of Ethnic Orientation within a Dispersed Ethnic Group in a Big City (A Case Study from Leningrad)
pp. 32-42
Ethno-Meteorology (Studying Traditional Folk Knowledge)
pp. 42-54
Yearly Ritual Cycle of Ukrainian Urban Artisans in the Feudal Epoch
pp. 54-76
Soviet Ethnography in China
pp. 76-93
Discussions
Ways of Ethnic-Like Passionarity (On the Conception of Ethnos and Ethnogenesis Suggested by L. N. Gumilev)
pp. 94-110
From the History of Ethnography
P. I. Preis and His Program of Ethnographic Research among Yugoslavian Peoples
pp. 111-122
Prof. Fei Xiaotung (On the Occasion of His 80th Birthday)
pp. 122-124
Communications
Peculiarities of the Mordovian Nathional Identity
pp. 125-129
Burmese Puppet Theatre as a Phenomenon of Traditional Culture
pp. 129-142
Our Anniversaries
List of Major Works by V. V. Pimenov, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to His 60th Birthday and 35 Years of Scholarly Activity)
pp. 143-146
Academic Life
UN International Seminar on Family Concepts, Terminology, Statistics and Social Indicators
pp. 147-149
An International Conference «Mass Migrations of XIX—XX cc. in European Context»
pp. 149-150
An International Conference on Historical Studies of Nutrition in Europe
pp. 150-151
Conference «Ethnic and Ethnographic Groups in the U.S.S.R. and Their Role in Contemporary Ethno-Cultural Processes»
pp. 151-155
A Session of the Learned Council of the Institute of Ethnography, the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Dedicated to the Memory of Sergei Alexandrovich Tokarev
pp. 155-156
Expeditions in Brief
pp. 157-159
Criticism and Bibliography
Critical Articles and Reviews
On Some Evolutionary Patterns of Ethnic Identity (Marginalia)
pp. 160-167
General Ethnograrhy
The Centennial Index: One Hundred Years of the «Journal of American Folklore»
pp. 167-169
Peoples of the U.S.S.R.
A. G. bulatova. Traditional Feasts and Rites in Highland Daghestan (XIX—Early XX c.)
pp. 169-172
Peoples of Non-Soviet Europe
Ye. A. Sherwud. From Anglo-Saxons to Englishmen (On the Formation of the English People)
pp. 172-173