Number 3, 1989

National Processes Today

Ethnic Problems in Leningrad and the Leningrad Region

K. V. Chistov

Discussing V. A. Tishkov’s Article «On the Concept of Perestroika of Interethnic Relations in the USSR»

A. I. Kuznetsov,  G. Ye. Markov,  S. V. Cheshko

A Session of the Ethnic Politics Section on the Future Status of the Crimea

I. I. Krupnik,  T. M. Mast'ugina,  Ye. E. Nosenko

Articles

Ethnography and Studying Political Traditions

V. V. Bocharov

Pre-Islamic Religious Syncretism among the Vainakhs

N. N. Velikaya,  V. B. Vinogradov

A New Set of Anthropological Indices for Plastic Reconstruction

T. S. Baluyeva,  Ye. V. Veselovskaya

Discussions

Discussing V. V. Pimenov’s Article «Training Professional Ethnographers: The Problems of Perestroika»

L. P. Lashuk,  V. I. Naulko,  Editorial Comment

Communications

Calendar Festivals of Russian Urban Dwellers in West Siberia in the First Half of the XIXth Century

A. I. Kupriyanov

The Chuvash Folk Art: Current Situation and Prospects

V. P. Ivanov,  A. A. Trofimov

Contributing to Paleoethnography of the Northern Caucasus: The Data’of Narrative Sources and Pictorial Arts

I. V. Shtal'

Ancestor Cult and Ethnic Stereotypes of Behaviour among the Burmese

A. Yu. Sinitsyn

Folk Poetry Genres in Japanese Calendar Rites

A. R. Sadokova

Chronicle

The Work of the Institute of Ethnography, the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1988

A. Ye. Ter-Sarkis'ants

Academic Life

The XII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

V. A. Tishkov,  V. A. Shnirel'man

An All-Union Session on the Results of Anthropological and Ethnographic Research of 1986—1987

Yu. D. Anchabadze,  L. T. Solovyeva

Some Results of a Seminar «Ethnic Aspects of Power in Contemporary World»

V. V. Bocharov

A Problem Exhibition «Man and His Environment: Settlement and Dweling in Eastern Europe»

O. M. Fishman

Expeditions in Brief

Our Anniversaries

List of Scholarly Works by R. G. Kuzeyev, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to His 60th Birthday)

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

Ethological Studies in Ethnology (Britain, West Germany, USA)

A. A. Belik

General Ethnography

Food in Change. Eating Habits from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

T. A. Voronina

Peoples of the USSR

T. A. Bernshtam. Youth in the Ritual Life of Russian Community (XIX—early XX c.). Sex and Age Aspects of Traditional Culture

B. M. Firsov

On interethnic Relations in the USSR Today

(A Statement of Academic Ethnographers Issued at a Session of the Learned Council of the Institute of Ethnography on May 4, 1989)