Number 2, 1981

Ethnographic research in the 10th five-year-plan period

Yu. V. Bromley,  A. E. Ter-Sarki'siants

Modernity in the expositions of the State Ethnographical Museum of Soviet Peoples in Leningrad (searchings and problems)

I. I. Baranova

The wedding ritual as a historical-ethnographic source (as exemplified by the Khorezm Uzbeks)

N. P. Lobachova

To the demographic study of the 9th century French village (people and names)

Yu. L. Bessmertny

The differentiation of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East according to certain craniological indices

Yu. D. Benevolenskaya

Discussions

Key problems in the theory of cultural tradition

E. S. Markarian

Comments on the paper by E. S. Markarian

Custom, ritual, tradition

S. A. Arutiunov

On the regulative aspects of cultural tradition

K. S. Saringulian

On classifying the forms of cultural tradition

I. A. Barsegian

The axiological approach to cultural tradition

S. A. Tokarev

Tradition, «traditional societies» and the variability problem

K. V. Čistov

Tradition and sociocultural structures

B. M. Bernstein

The geography of cultural traditions and its place in their integral utilization

V. M. Gokhman

On the historical types of traditional orientation

V. B. Vla'sova

From the history of science

A German Slav scholar on Russian epos (a dissertation by Wilhelm Wollner, 1879)

E. Flexelschneider

Communications

On determining the numbers of North Siberian aborigines in the 17th century

V. A. Tugolukov

The results of a metallographic analysis of two artifacts by Koryak smiths

Ye. A. Glinski,  D. A. Sergeyev

Notes on Agul agricultural magic

Z. K. Tarlanov

Searchings, facts, hypotheses

Царская гробница в Паленке: легенды и факты

V. I. Guliaev

Chronicie of academic life

Problems of the early ethnic history of the Slavs at the 4th International Congress of Slavic Archaeology

V. V. Sedov

Folklore study methods (the 8th Bogatyryov readings)

L. M. Ivleva

An exhibition «From the history of sports and games of the peoples of the world» in the Peter the Great Anthropological Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences

I. F. Shavrina

Traditional sports of Soviet nationalities

V. A. Dmitriev

At the readings devoted to Middle Asia (Soviet Central Asia) and the Caucasus

V. A. Vishnevetskaya

The study of peoples and photography

V. N. Basilov

Expeditions in brief

Criticism and bibliography

Critical articles and reviews

On the early population spread and ethnic contacts of the pra-Slavs in the Carpathian-Danube area

E. A. Rickman

Soviet peoples

I. I. Travin. The environment of material objects and the Socialist way of life

G. V. Starovoytova

A. T. Ganalanian. Armenian legends and traditions

S. B. Arutiunian

V. I. Molodin. The Kyshtovka burial site

D. G. Savinov

Peoples of Asia outside the USSR

The art of Burma

Ye. V. Ivanova

Peoples of America

James W. VanStone. Ingalik Contact Ecology: an Ethnohistory of the Lower-Middle Yukon, 1790—1935

G. I. Dzeniskevic