«Forms Preceding Capitalist Productions by Karl Marx and Some Aspects of the Rise of Political Organisation
pp. 3-12
The Phenomenon of Communication from the Viewpoint of Ethnopsychology (Formulating the Problem)
pp. 12-23
To the Ethnographic Study of Individual’s Vital Activity (the Case of Traditional Abkhazian Culture)
pp. 23-34
Traditional Authorities and Colonial Chiefs in East Africa (Problems of Terminology and Typology)
pp. 35-44
Discussions
Ethnography. Its Place in the System of Social Science, Main Currents, Methods
pp. 45-60
From the History of Ethnography
A. N. Genko’s Contribution to Ethnographic Study of the Caucasus
pp. 61-79
Communications
Once Again on the Tasks of Ethnography in Developing, Implanting and Perfecting Socialist Rituals
pp. 73-80
Ethnic. Attitudes in Mate Selection (an Analysis of Marital Advertisements in the Cities of Ufa find Cheboksary)
pp. 80-90
The Folk Art of Wood Carving in the Guzul Area (South-West Ukraine)
pp. 90-99
The Study of Russian Folklore in Japan
pp. 99-105
Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses
The Role of Totemic Symbolism in the Potlach among the Tlingit
pp. 106-114
Our Anniversaries
List of Principal Works by T. V. Staniukovich, Doctor of Historical Sciences, in Ethnography and Museology (to the 40th Year of Sholarly Activity)
pp. 115-117
Chronicle
The Activities of the Order of People’s Friendship Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1986
pp. 118-124
Academic Life
An All-Union Conference on the Results of the 1984— 1985 Field Studies in Ethnography and Physical Anthropology
pp. 125-133
A Session of the Council of the Institute of Ethnography in Memoriam A. N. Genko
pp. 133-134
A Methodological Seminar in Leninakan, Armenia, on Folk Dance in the USSR
pp. 134-136
A Visit of the Floating Museum «Pauline» to Arkhangelsk
pp. 136-139
Expeditions in Brief
pp. 139-140
Criticism and Bibliography
Critical Articles and Reviews
Western Sovietologists on Ethnic Relations and Ethno-Cultural Processes in Middle Asia (Soviet Central Asia) (1970ies— 1980ies)
pp. 141-149
New Belorussian Studies in Ethnomusicology
pp. 149-152
General Ethnography
A. D. Stoliar. The Origin of Imitative Arts
pp. 152-155
Peoples of the USSR
Peoples of the Volga-Ural Region (Essays in Historical Ethnography)
pp. 155-157
Problems of Historic-Cultural Contacts in Northern Caucasus
pp. 158-159
M. N. Makalatiya. Cattle-Breeding in the Highlands of East Georgia
pp. 159-161
Abazinian Folk Tales
pp. 161-162
«The Melodies of Our Clan»
pp. 162-165
Peoples of Europe Outside the USSR
O. A. Gantskaya. Polish Family
pp. 165-166
V. Chaykanovich. A Dictionary of Serbian Folk Beliefs Connected with Plants
pp. 167-169
N. A. Krasnovskaya. The Origin and Ethnic History of the Sards
pp. 169-170
Peoples of Australia
A Bibliography of Australia
pp. 170-172