Number 3, 1986

Continuity and Innovation in Dealing with Ethnic-National Problems at the Stage of Highly-Developed Socialism

M. N. Guboglo

V. I. Lenin and the Problem of the Periodization of Russian Folklore History

K. V. Čistov

Concepts of Ethnopolitical Processes in Developing Countries and Methods of Their Applied Study

K. P. Borishpolets,  Sh. Z. Sultanov

Homeostasis in the Demographic History of the People of the North (17th to 19th Centuries): Reality or Illusion?

A. I. Pika

Ethnoreligious Processes in Pre-Islamic Arabia (the- Religious-Tribal Communities of Hums, Hilla and Tuls)

S. A. Frantsuzov

Discussions

Once More — on the Historical Types of Ethnic Communities

M. V. Kriukov

Ethnic Communities and the Process of Historical Evolution by Socioeconomic Formations

A. I. Pershits

On the Tribe, the Nationality, and the Nation

Yu. I. Semionov

From the History of Ethnography

Ethnography and History (to the 80th Birth Anniversary of W. Steinitz)

W. Jacobeit

Visiting: an Ethnographic Journal from the Ukrainian SSR

60 Years of Ukrainian Ethnographic Periodicals

S. D. Zubkov

Ethnography in Museums

From the History of the State Ethnographic Museum of the Estonian SSR

J. F. Linnus

Communications

International and National Constituents in Soviet Central Television Broadcasting

V. C. Maikova

An Attempt at Genealogical Descriptions (for the Case of the Chukchis)

G. M. Afanasyeva,  Yu. B. Simchenko

Masks and Mummery in the Traditional Life of the Ossets

V. S. Warziati

New Orleans as Seen by an Ethnographer

V. A. Tishkov

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

Yokthe: Burman Puppets

I. N. Solomonik

Chronicle

The Activity of the Order of People’s Friendship Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in 1985

A. Ye. Ter-Sarkisyants

Academic Life

«The Soviet Peoples’ Family under Socialism at Its High Development Stage» — an All-Union Scientific Conference

I. A. Grishayev

«Areal Studies in Linguistics and Ethnography» — an All-Union Conference

N. V. Bikbulatov,   T. V. Kosmina

«Present-Day Ethnic and Cultural Processes among the Peoples of the Urals-Volga Region and the European North of the USSR» — an Ethnographic Conference

G. K. Shkliayev

A Scientific Conference Devoted to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Ch. Valikhanov

R. S. Lipets

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

Russian Publications of C. Levi-Strauss

N. Ya. Daragan,  A. B. Ostrovsky

Peoples of the USSR

A. I. Robakidze. Svaneti. 1. Dwellings and Settlement

G. N. Davitashvili,  V. M. Shamiladze