Utilitarian Aspects of the Ethnographic Study of Rural Settlements and Systems of the Geographical Distribution of the Population
pp. 3-14
Fantastic Images in Russian Folk Tales Depicting Everyday Life
pp. 14-25
Ethnic Concepts in the Balkans in the Early Middle Ages (Based on the «Chronicle of Priest Duklianin»)
pp. 25-35
The Evolution of Protective Symbolics in the Architecture of Central Asian Nomads
pp. 35-48
Traditional Marriage Norms among East African Cattle Breeding Peoples
pp. 49-57
The Struggle of the Australian Aborigines for Their Land Rights and the Truganini «Cult»
pp. 57-69
Discussions
Further Discussion of M. M. Gromyko’s Article «The Place of the Village (Territorial) Community in the Social Machinery by Which Tradition is Formed, Preserved and Changed» (Sovetskaya Etnografia», 1984, No 5)
pp. 70-79
From the History of Ethnography
The Ainu in the Pages of Ye. Ye. Loewenstern’s Diary
pp. 80-87
Communications
The Present-Day Transformation of the Turkmen Dietary System
pp. 88-98
Traditional Abkhaz Birth Customs and Rituals and Their Transformation in the Soviet Period
pp. 98-105
Black Salt (about a Popular Kostroma Custom)
pp. 105-107
On Certain Archaic Motifs in the Embroidery of Sol’vychegodsk Kokoshniks (Old Russian Female Head-dress) of the Northern Dvina Type (Based on Materials from the Vologda Region Local Lore Museum)
pp. 107-115
Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses
The City and the Poet (to the Study of Ethnographical Sources)
pp. 116-129
Our Anniversaries
A List of the Main Works by N. A. Butinov, Doctor of Historical Sciences (to His 70th Birthday)
pp. 130-132
Academic Life
A Conference on the 400th Anniversary of the City of Arkhangelsk
pp. 133-136
15th Conference for the Study of Australia and Oceania
pp. 136-138
An Enlarged Session of the Academic Council of the Museum for Anthropology and Ethnography Commemorating Prof. V. V. Ginzburg
pp. 138-139
Expeditions in Brief
pp. 139-141
Criticism and Bibliography
Critical Articles and Reviews
The Study in Modern Czechoslovakian Culture. Lidova kultura a so- ucasnost/Ridi Frolec V. Sv. 1—8, Brno, 1974—1982
pp. 142-147
General Ethnography
The Subsistence Culture and the Ethnos. An Attempt at an Ethnoculturological Study (Based upon Materials on Armenian Rural Culture) / Eds. S. A. Arutiunov, E. S. Markaryan
pp. 147-150
Peoples of the USSR
L. N. Semionova. Essays on the History of Everyday Life and Culture in Russia in the First Half of the 18th Century
pp. 150-151
V. L. Bigvava. The Modern Abkhaz Rural Family
pp. 151-153
L. T. Shinlo. Socialist Transformations in the Economy, Culture and Everyday Life of the Dungans
pp. 154-155
Russian Folk Tales of the Pudozh Area Compiled by A. P. Razumova and T. I. Sen’kina
pp. 155-157
New Studies of Karelian Popular Riddles
pp. 157-159
M. B. Rudenko. Kurd Ritual Poetry (Funeral Lamentations)
pp. 159-161
Peoples of Asia outside the USSR
N. G. Krasnodembskaya. The Traditional World Outlook of the Sinhalese
pp. 161-163
Peoples of America
Henley P. The Panare. Tradition and Change on the Amazonian Frontier
pp. 163-166
In Honour оf Eyak. The Art of Anna Nelson Harry // Ed. Krauss Michael E.
pp. 166-167
Peoples of Oceania
Siikala J. Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia. A Study of Traditional Religion, Christianity and Nativistic Movements
pp. 168-169
Obituary
Dorian Andreyevitch Sergeyev
pp. 170-173