Number 6, 1984

On the Principles Underlying the Study of the Functions, Content and Structure of Activities outside Working Time

O. I. Shkaratan

The Family: Its Structure, Functions, Types

O. A. Gantskaya

An Attempt at Reconstructing a Society’s Structure (Based on Data from a Bronze Age Burial Ground)

R. Ya. Denisova

The Immigrant Population of the Republic of South Africa

B. V. Sokolov

Discussions

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)

V. A. Alexandrov,  L. V. Markova,  S. B. Rozhdestvenskaya,  L. A. Tultseva,  Ya. V. Tchesnov

From the History of Ethnography

M. G. Levin, Anthropologist, Ethnographer and Research Organizer (to His 80th Birth Anniversary)

V. P. Alexeyev

Communications

On the Forms and Types of Animal Husbandry (19th Century Daghestan Materials)

M. O. Osmanov

Early Traditions in House Construction among the Highland Peoples of Northern Caucasus

V. B. Kovalevskaya

A Visit to the Hungarian Yas

B. A. Kaloyev

On the Creative Adaptation of Sociocultural Traditions in Niger

A. Bukari

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

The Saddle and the Stirrup

S. I. Vainshtein,  M. V. Kriukov

Academic Life

An All-Union Conference on the Results of 1983 Field Studies

A. N. Zhilina,  A. Ye. Pakhutov

Readings in Memory of B. O. Dolgikh

G. M. Afanasyeva

Problems of the Ethnic Specificity of the Language of Culture: a Symposium

I. A. Osnitskaya

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

Chinese Scholars on Problems in the Theory of Ethnos

M. V. Kriukov

General Ethnography

The Ethnos in Pre-Class and Early Class Society. Eds. Yu. V. Bromley, L. Ye. Kubbel, A. I. Pershits

G. S. Kiseliov

Peoples of the USSR

N. A. Tomilov. The Turkic-Speaking Population of the West-Siberian Plain from the Close of the 16th to the First Quarter of the 19th Century

B. Kh. Karmysheva,  Z. P. Sokolova

Two Books on Folk Art

G. S. Maslova

The Bylinas. Russian Musical Epos. Compiled by B. M. Dobrovolski, V. V. Korguzalov

D. M. Batser,  N. M. Vladykina-Batchinskaya

I. V. Dubov. North-Eastern Russia in the Early Middle Ages (Historico-archaeological Studies)

D. A. Matchinski

Peoples of Europe outside the USSR

Во Lönnqvist. Suomenruotsalaiset. Kansatieteellinen tutkielma kieliryhmästä

N. V. Shlygina

Peoples of America

L. Carlson. Indians, Bureaucrats and Land. The Dawes Act and the Decline of Indian Farming

V. G. Stelmakh

Index for 1984