Number 4, 1984

F. Engels’ Work «The Origins of the Family, Privati Property and the State» and Certain Problems in the Theory of the Historical Process

N. B. Ter-Akopyan

From the History of the Karakalpak Female Dress (to thi Problems of the Ethnohistorical Atlas of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan)

N. P. Lobachova

The Ethnic Territory of the Burtas in the Second Half of the 8th to the Early 10th Century

G. Ye. Afanassyev

The Economy of the United States Indians at the Turn of the 20th Century

V. G. Stelmakh

Anthropological Studies in Sokotra

V. S. Shinkarenko,  V. V. Naumkin,  H. L. Khit',  A. A. Zubov

Discussions

Theoretical Problems in the Reconstruction of Earliest Slav Spiritual Culture (Conclusion of the Discussion)

V. V. Ivanov,  V. V. Sedov,  A. K. Smol'skaya,  N. I. Zubov,  O. A. Ternovskaya,  A. V. Gura,  I. A. Dzendzelevski,  V. I. Tolstoy,  Svetlana Tolstaya

From the History of Ethnography

Ethnographic Subjects in the Works of F. I. Leontovitch

Yu. D. Anchabadze

Ethnography in Museums

I. G. Voznessensky’s Californian Collection in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Leningrad)

E. A. Okladnikova

Communications

The Ethnographic Regions of Europe (to the History of Ethnographic Studies of the Area)

N. N. Gratsianskaya,  S. A. Tokarev

Animal Husbandry Types among the Kirghiz of Pamiro-Alay and Karateghin in the late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

V. A. Staroverov

The Language Situation in the People’s Republic of Angola

A. A. Yarushkin

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

Protoindian Writing: Results and Prospects of Study

M. F. Albedil

Our Anniversaries

A List of Major Works by Doctor of Historical Sciences G. S. Maslova (to the 60th Anniversary of Her Scholarly Activity)

Academic Life

An All-Russian Undergraduate Ethnographic Conference

N. A. Tomilov

The Art of the Korean People’s Democratic Republican Exposition

R. Sh. Djarylgassinova

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

A Discussion on Yu. V. Bromley’s Book «Essays in the Theory of Ethnos»

M. A. Barg,  S. A. Arutiunov,  B. F. Lomov,  L. A. Gordon,  Ya. G. Mashbits,  G. V. Stepanov

General Ethnography

The Evolution of Ethnic Self-Awareness of Slav Peoples in the Early Middle Ages

T. M. Islamov

Peoples of the USSR

N. G. Volkova, G. V. Djavakhishvili. Everyday Life Culture in Georgia, 19th and 20th Centuries: Tradition and Innovation

V. Dj. Itonishvili

Vainakh Rituals of Family and Everyday Life

Ya. S. Smirnova

Peoples of Europe outside the USSR

N. A. Yerofeyev. Albion in the Mist. England and the English through Russian Eyes

V. I. Kozlov,  B. V. Sokolov

Peoples of Asia outside the USSR

Ye. S. Yurlova. The Social Position of Women and the Women’s Movement in India

N. R. Gusseva