Number 5, 1990

National Processes Today

On the New Constitution of the U.S.S.R.

Yu. V. Bromley,  S. V. Cheshko,  V. A. Tishkov,  C. V. Chistov,  M. N. Guboglo,  E. V. Tadevosyan

On Ethno-Cultural Reproduction in Soviet Republics

S. A. Arutiunov

On the Problem of Ingush Autonomy

Yu. Yu. Karpov

Articles

Small Ethnos: Problems of Ethnic and Social Policies (The Veps Case)

A. A. Susokolov,  V. V. Stepanov

Reinforcing Free Cossack Communities in the North Caucasus in the XVI—XVII cc.

S. A. Kozlov

Cultural and Ethnic Continuity of Indigenous Peoples in the North of Europe. Some Anthropological Viewpoints

T. Thuen

Planning Full-Size Life Careers. Consequences of the Increase in the Length and Certainty of Our LifeSpans over the Last Three Hundred Years

A. E. Imhof

Discussions

Dialectics of Gender in State Formation

C. W. Galley

From the History of Ethnography

I. K. Zelenov, a Researcher of Culture in the Kama and Ural Region

N. V. Zelenova-Cheshikhlna

Leonid Ivanovich Lavrov, a Researcher of Caucasus Peoples

G. V. Tsulaia

Communications

Traditional Ukrainian Female Head-Dress and Its Role in Wedding Rituals (Mid XIX—Early XX c.)

N. A. Gurosheva

Remnants of Early Concepts of Nature in the Buryat Traditional Culture

Yu. A. Asoyan

Personal Names of the Tlingit Indians

A. F. Grinev

Academic Life

A Congress of Small Peoples of the North. An Ethnographer’s View

Z. P. Sokolova

A Conference «Problems of Studying Lithuanian Culture

R. Merkene,  Ya. Morkunene

The Scientific Conference Devoted to the 200-th Anniversary of Vardø (Norway)

A. N. Davydov,  P. Saarlniemi

An International Symposium in Florence «Collecting, Storing, Restoring, and Exhibiting Items of Traditional Apican Art»

V. R. Arseniev

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

General Ethnography

Ethnographic Study of Semantic Patterns of Culture

T. A. Bernshtam

R. G. Liapunova. The Aleut. Essays on Ethnic History

Ye. V. Golovko

Peoples of the U.S.S.R.

A. I. Mikulich. Genogeography of Byelorussian Rural Population

I. S. Guseva

Т. Dragadze. Rural Families in Soviet Georgia (A Case in Ratcha Province)

N. V. Mgeladze

N. V. Kocheshkov. Ethnic Traditions in the Folk Decorative Art of the Soviet Far North-East

N. I. Kaplan

Obituaries

Yulian Vladimirovich Bromley

Alexei Ivanovich Robakidzei