The Christianization of Russian Peasants
pp. 3-15
V. N. Tenishev’s Theoretical Views
pp. 15-27
Culture and Everyday Life in Ethnically Mixed Families (from the Data of a Study in the Rural Areas of the Tatar Republic)
pp. 27-36
The Phratry’s Historical Place in the Structure of Social Links: the Case of the West-Siberian Ugrians
pp. 36-47
Contemporary Ethnic Situation in the Hawaii
pp. 47-64
Discussions
Training Professional Ethnographers: the Problems of Perestroyka
pp. 65-71
From the History of Ethnography
O. Argunov’s Unpublished Work on the Northern Ainu
pp. 72-83
Communications
Ethnic Factors in the Use of Labour Resources
pp. 84-88
Ethnos in the Fiction of the Peoples of the Volga-Ural Region
pp. 88-99
Wild Plants in the Bashkir Food Habits
pp. 99-109
Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses
The Origin of the Eskimo: Is an Alternative Hypothesis Possible?
pp. 110-118
Our Anniversaries
List of Major Works by L. A. Molchanova, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to the 40th Anniversary of Her Scholarly Activity)
pp. 119-121
Chronicle
The Work of the Order of People’s Friendship Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1987
pp. 122-130
Academic Life
The 17th All-Union Finno-Ugrian Conference
pp. 131-135
A Symposium on Armenian Communities in the West and in the Third World
pp. 135-138
A Learned-Practical Conference on the Modern Situation of Folk Artistic Trades
pp. 138-141
Norwegian Ethnographers-Museologists Visit Arkhangelsk
pp. 141-142
Criticism and Bibliography
Critical Articles and Reviews
Shamanism, Culture and Ethnic Contacts in Eurasia
pp. 143-151
General Ethnography
V. R. Kabo. Primeval Pre-Agricultural Community
pp. 151-154
Peoples of the USSR
The Byelorussian Ethnography (in Byelorussian)
pp. 154-157
The Cattle-Breeding Economy of the Kurds in Eastern Armenia
pp. 157-158
T. H. Akopyan, S. T. Melik-Bakhshyan, O. H. Barsegyan. A Toponymic Dictionary of Armenia and the Adjacent Areas. T. I
pp. 158-161
Peoples of Non-Soviet Europe
Bulgarian Ethnography (in Bulgarian)
pp. 161-166
Zlatá podkova, zlaté pero, zlatý vlas
pp. 166-168
Peoples of Africa
G. S. Kiselyov. Pre-Colonial Africa. The Rise of the Class Society (the State of the Problem and the Prospects of Further Studies
pp. 168-171
V. Crapanzano. Waiting. The Whites of South Africa
pp. 171-173