Number 2, 1986

Soviet Ethnology at the Transition Point between Two Five-Year Periods

Yu. V. Bromley,  A. Ye. Ter-Sarkisyants

The Functions of Ethnography in the Elaboration, Inculcation and Further Development of Socialist Ritual (the Family Cycle)

N. P. Lobachova,  M. Ya. Ustinova

The Finnish Family of To-Day

N. V. Shlygina

Ainu Kinship Terminology

A. B. Spevakovsky

The Hiri Motu Language in Papua New Guinea: Its Origin and Early Evolution

T. E. Dutton

From ihe History of Ethnojpaphy

From the History of Common Law of the Peoples of the North

V. A. Zibarev

Communications

Rural Dwellings and Household Buildings in the Amur River Area in the Early 20th Century

N. A. Sobolevskaya

Are the «Zaonezhanie» (Trans-Onega Lake Group) a Local Group of the Russians?

K. K. Loginov

Russian Working People’s Migration to America in the Last Quarter of the 19th Century

A. S. Sokolov

Transformation of Tribes and Analogous Social Formations

V. K. Roy Burman

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

N. N. Mikloukho-Maclay in the Memories of His Contemporaries (Some Forgotten Pages)

Ye. V. Govor

Our Anniversaries

List of Major Works by B. A. Kaloyev, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to His 70th Birthday)

List of Major Works by M. G. Rabinovitch, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to His 70th Birthday)

Academic Life

«Heroic-Historical Epic Poetry: Its Significance for the Creative Culture of the Peoples of the Caucasus» — a Scientific Symposium

V. K. Sokolova

«Ethnography of St. Petersburg — Leningrad»: Second Conference

N. V. Yukhneva

The 16th Scientific Conference for the Study of Australia and Oceania

M. S. Butinova

The Art of Gzhel’

I. Ya. Boguslavskaya

The Third All-Russian Festival of Youthful Ethnographers

S. B. Rozhdestvenskaya,  V. V. Rudnev

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

Folk Poetry in the Years of the 2nd World War

V. Ye. Gussev

The Ethnographic Study of South-West Georgia

N. G. Volkova

Main Trends in the Study of North American Eskimos by U. S. and Canadian Anthropologists in the 1960ies and 1970ies

N. A. Lopulenko

Ethnographic Subject-Matter in Publications by the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences

T. B. Uvarova

Peoples of the USSR

S. Kh. Mafed- zev. An Outline of Work Training among the Adyghe in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

S. A. Arutiunov,  B. Kh. Bgazhnokov

G. N. Simakov. The Social Functions of Kirghiz Popular Amusements in the late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (a Historical-Ethnographic Outline)

K. P. Kalinovskaya

N. Vélius. Senovés baltiu pasauléziura (The World Outlook of the Ancient Balts)

L. I. Sauka

Peoples of Asia outside the USSR

I. N.Solomonik. The Traditional Puppet Theatre in the East

M. A. Chlenov

Peoples of Africa

E. S. Lvova. Ethnography of Africa, a Manual

N. I. Kirey

V. A. Vinogradov, A. I. Koval’, V. A. Porkhomovsky. Socio-Linguistic Typology. West Africa

V. A. Shnirelman