Number 4, 1986

The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR and the Tasks Confronting Soviet Ethnographers

To the Problem of Preserving the Folk Architecture Heritage (the Case of Georgian Rural Dwellings)

N. G. Zarandia,  E. A. Payin

On the Use of Fiction as a Source in Urban Ethnographic Studies

Ye. I. Filippova

Towards a Definition of the Form of Animal Husbandry Practised by the Peoples of Highland Daghestan in the 18th and 19th Centuries

M. O. Osmanov

The Ethnic Odontology of Vietnam as a Source for Studying the Interaction of Mongoloid and Equatorial Racial Forms in South-East Asia

G. A. Aksianova,  I. M. Zolotariova,  A. A. Zubov

Discussions

Further Discussion of M. V. Kriukov's Article on the Typology of Ethnic Communities («Sovetskaya Ethnogralia», 1986, No 3)

The Classificatory Space of Ethnic Typology

S. A. Arutiunov

From Primitive to Modern Times

V. I. Kozlov

Ethnic Communities as a Historical Category

G. Ye. Markov

From the History of Ethnography

Caucasus Studies in the Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences (to the 50th Anniversary of the Caucasus Section of the Institute)

N. G. Volkova

Communications

Marriage Grouping and Endogamous Barriers. To the Methods of Analyzing Marriage Migration

S. V. Sokolovsky

On the Ethnocultural Development of Soviet Germans

T. D. Filimonova

On the Adyghe «Secret» Languages

A. S. Kishev

The «Badik» Genre in Uzbek Ritual Folklore

B. I. Sarimsakov

Ritual Painting on the Ground in India

N. V. Bulanova

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

On the Trail of an Enigma

Z. P. Sokolova

Our Anniversaries

List of Major Works by B. Kh. Karmysheva, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to the 40th Anniversary of Her Scholarly Activity)

Academic Life

«Ethnocultural Processes in Europe: Past and Present», a Conference

T. A. Voronina,  Yu. V. Ivanova

Ethnographic Training of African and Latin American Students in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History of Voronezh University

A. D. Priakhin

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

Lands and Peoples. A 20-Volume Popular Science Publication in Geography and Ethnography

I. R. Grigulevitch,  S. Ya. Kozlov

General Ethnography

M. A. Nekrasova. Folk Art as a Part of Culture

I. Ya. Boguslavskaya

S. Yu. Nekliudov. Heroic Epics of Mongolian Peoples

N. L. Zhukovskaya

A. K. Bayburin. The Dwelling in Eastern Slav Rituals and Images

Ya. V. Tchesnov

Peoples of the USSR

G. S. Maslova. Folk Costume in Eastern Slav Customs and Rituals in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Ye. P. Busygin,  N. V. Zorin

Sh. D. Inal-Ipa. Outlines of Abkhazian Etiquette

G. Amichba,  Sh. Salakaya

Peoples of Africa

Peuples du Golfe du Bénin. Aja-Ewé

D. P. Ursu