Number 4, 1988

On the Diversity of Ethnography’s Historical Traditions

Yu. V. Bromley

A Strategy of Synthesis in Studying Ethnogenesis (Interdisciplinary Integration and Source Synthesis in Solving the Problems of Ethnogenesis)

L. S. Klejn

Reconstruction of Ethnogenesis by the Data of Linguistics and Archaeology: Problems of Methodology

A. Yu. Militaryov,  I. I. Peiros,  V. A. Shnirel'man

V. N. Tenishev’s «Peasant» Programme and Some Results of Its Implementation

B. M. Firsov

Sri Lanka: Ethnic Conflict and Problems of National Culture

N. G. Krasnodembskaya

Discussions

The National Problem in the USSR: Current State and Prospects of Research

S. V. Cheshko

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

Ye. P. Busygin,  V. V. Karlov,  G. Ye. Markov,  N. A. Tomilov

Communications

Woman in Old Russian Family (X—XV centuries)

N. L. Pushkaryova

The Kalmyk Funeral Rite (XVII—XX centuries)

E. P. Bakayeva,  E.-B. M. Guchinova

Siblingship, Male and Female Power in the Central and Western Carolines

W. H. Alkire

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

Bon, a Japanese Fold Festival

S. B. Markaryan,  E. V. Molod'akova

Our Anniversaries

List of Major Works by Ye. N. Studenetzkaya (to the 50th Anniversary of Her Scholarly Activity)

Academic Life

Main Ethnic Aspects of Physical Anthropology. A Session Devoted to the 95th Anniversary of V. V. Bunak

G. M. Davydova,  M. L. Butovskaya,  N. I. Khaldeyeva

The 34th Congress of Yugoslavian Folklorists

V. Ye. Gusev

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

The Main Trends in Soviet Ethnographic Studies of Oceania, 1961—1986

D. D. Tumarkin

General Ethnography

K. V. Chistov. Folk Traditions and Folklore. Theoretical Essays

N. I. Tolstoy

Peoples of the USSR

The Socio-Cultural Aspects of Soviet Nations (by the Data of an Ethno-Sociological Study)

M. Ya. Ustinova

V. M. Mokiyenko. Images of Russian Speech

Ya. I. Guin

The Folklore of Russkoye Ustye

S. I. Dmitriyeva

M. B. Kandelaki. From the Social Customs of Georgian Highlanders — The Institution of Amanatstvo

Yu. D. Anchabadze

Peoples of Non-Soviet Europe

Dějiny hmotné kultury

A. S. Myl'nikov

Peoples of America

L. A. Fainberg. Deceptive Paradise (Man in Tropical South America)

V. I. Kozlov

Letters to the Editorial Board

Three Questions to the Editorial Board of the Journal «Sovetskaya Etnografiy»

M. N. Guboglo

From the Editorial Board