Finno-Ugric Peoples of the USSR: Present-Day Ethnocultural Processes
pp. 3-13
Ethnosocial Aspects of Natality in a Multi-Ethnic City (the Tashkent Case)
pp. 13-24
Reconstructing Certain Russian Transitional Maturity Rites
pp. 24-35
Canadian Native Peoples: Contemporary Ethnolinguistic Situation
pp. 35-46
Typological Variants of Ancient Eskimo Graphic Ornament (to the Problem of the Ethnocultural History of the Bering Sea Area in the 1st Millenium B. C. and 1st Millenium A. D.)
pp. 46-58
From the History of Ethnography
Stepan Danilovich Lisitsian (1865—1947)
pp. 59-69
Ethnography in Museums
The Main Sources of Replenishing the Funds of the USSR Academy of Sciences Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (1960—1980)
pp. 70-77
Communications
Popular Diet in Kargopolye (19th and 20th Century Materials)
pp. 78-93
Traditions Relating to the Departure of Yukaghir Groups to the Islands and «over the Sea»
pp. 94-100
Folklore Materials on Lezghin Metrology
pp. 100-106
Shirmay-Non Bread (Origin of the Tradition)
pp. 106-108
To the Morphology of Cult Buildings in Mongolia
pp. 108-118
Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses
Who was Boga’an Bronnilsyn?
pp. 119-123
Our Anniversaries
List of Books by I. A. Kryveliov (to His 80th Birthday)
pp. 124
List of Principal Works by N. V. Novikov. Doctor of Philological Sciences (to His 75th Birthday)
pp. 124-126
Academic Life
Session of the Academic Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnography Devoted to the Memory of G. F. Debets
pp. 127-136
A Scientific Conference Devoted to L. P. Semionov’s 100th Birth Anniversary
pp. 136-137
Ten Years of the Middle Asia and Caucasus Readings
pp. 137-140
Expeditions in Brief
pp. 140-141
Criticism and Bibliography
Critical Articles and Reviews
The Veteran Chinese Ethnographer Yang Kun on Problems of the History and Theory of the Science of Ethnography
pp. 142-151
General Ethnography
Ethnic Onomastics
pp. 151-153
A. I. Tarasova, Vladimir Clavdievich Arsenyev
pp. 153-155
Peoples of the USSR
Contemporary Processes in Everyday Life in Daghestan
pp. 155-157
P. Garb. From Childhood to Centenarian
pp. 157-159
I. Mukhitdinov. Specific Features of the Pamir Peoples’ Traditional Agriculture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
pp. 159-160
L. S. Tolstova. Historical Traditions of the Southern Aral Sea Area (to the History of Early Ethnographic Links between the Peoples of the Aral — Caspian Area)
pp. 160-161
V. N. Uvachan. Years Like Centuries
pp. 161-163
V. M. Kulemzin. Man and Nature in Khanty Beliefs
pp. 163-165
А.V. Charrin. Le petit monde du Grand Corbeau
pp. 166
Index for 1986
pp. 167-171