Number 3, 1981

The 26th Congress of the C. P. S. U and the Tasks before Soviet Ethnography

Inter-Ethnic Relations and Ethnocultural Processes (on the Base of Materials of Soviet Ethno-Sociological Studies)

L. M. Drobizheva,  A. A. Susokolov

To the Ethnographical Study of the City

M. G. Rabinovitch,  M. N. Shmeliova

Personality as a Historico-Ethnic Category

A. A. Leontiev

Discussions

Discussion on E. S. Markarian's Paper «Key Problems of the Theory of Cultural Tradition»

Problems of the Theory of Tradition as Seen by an Ethnographer

A. I. Pershits

The Concept of «Memory» as the Conceptual Basis for Organizing Inter-Disciplinary Research into the Concept of «Cultural Tradition»

M. B. Zykov

Tradition as a Specific Mode of Social Succession

L. V. Danilova

Tradition and the «Regulation» of Cultural Continuity

I. I. Krupnik

Traditions: a Means of Developing People’s Capacity for the Simple Reproduction of Social Life

Ye. T. Borodin

Tradition as a Dialogue of Cultures

G. A. Prazdnikov

Traditions and Cultural Continuity

E. V. Sokolov

On the Significance of the Inter-Disciplinary Discussion on the Problems of Cultural Tradition

E. S. Markarian

Editorial Comment

From the History of Science

A Life Devoted to Song (to the 100th Birth Anniversary K. V. Kvitka)

T. V. Popova

Communications

The Natural Environment and Ethnic-Cultural Contacts in Daghestan

G. A. Sergeyeva

The Traditional Wedding Ritual in the Modern Life of Byelorussians in Latgalia

R. A. Grigoryeva

The Folklore of Latvian Gipsies (Its Predominating Genres and Its Subject-Matter)

Lexa Manush

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

Old Time Folk Musical Instruments

V. M. Kulikov,  M. V. Lysenko-Dniestrovski

Chronicle

The Activity of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnography in 1980

A. Ye. Ter-Sarkisiants

Academic Life

On a New Academic Publication of the Works of N. N. Miklukho-Maclay

D. D. Tumarkin

An Exhibition of «Traditional Folk Art in SouthEastern Asia»

Ye. V. Ivanova

Expeditions in brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

The Middle-Asian Art of Embroidery (on the Book «Tajik Embroidery» by N. Isayeva-Yunusova)

O. A. Sukhareva

General Ethnography

Ye. M. Meletinski. The Palaeoasiatic Mythological Epos. The Raven Cycle

G. I. Dzeniskevitch

Peoples of the USSR

Revolutionen i Norr. Om sovjetetnografi och minoritetspolitik

I. S. Gurvitch,  M. N. Morozova,  Z. P. Sokolova

Ethnic and Cultural Processes in the Caucasus

L. B. Zasedateleva

S. Sh. Gadzhieva. Outline of the History of Family ad Marriage among the Noghays, 19th —Early 20th Centuries

Ya. S. Smirnova

G. V. Zhirnova. Marriage and Wedding among Russian Urban Dwellers in the Past and Present (on the Base of Materials from Cities of the Middle Zone of the R. S. F. S. R.)

G. A. Nosova

Russian Siberian Folk Tales about the Bogatyrs (Epic Heroes)

L. G. Barag

Peoples of Europe outside the USSR

Е. Грозданова. Българската селска община през XV—XVIII век

L. V. Markova

Peoples of America

A.D. Tushingham, U.М. Franklin, Chr. Toogood et al. Studies in Ancient Peruvian Metalworking

Yu. Ye. Beriozkin

Obituary

Kustaa Gedeon Vilkuna (1902—1980)