Number 5, 1981

The Ethnography of Childhood (Problems in Methodology)

I. S. Kohn

The Numerical Strength and Geographical Distribution of the Ukrainian Ethnos in the 18th to Early 20th Centuries

S. I. Brook,  V. M. Kabuzan

The Pomochi Custom among 19th Century Russian Peasants (to the Integrated Study of Work Traditions)

M. M. Gromyko

Proto-Indian Inscriptions (to the Problems of Their Decipherment)

Yu. V. Knorozov

Epos and Ritual among the Mountain Tribes of the Philippines

M. V. Staniukovich

Communications

Ethnographical collections in the museums of Omsk

N. A. Tomilov

18th Century Documents on the Attitude of the Synod to Popular Calendar Rituals

N. N. Pokrovski

To the Problem of the Tat Ethnos

M. Ye. Matatov

The Custom of Tattooing and of Body Painting in the Caucasus

N. G. Volkova

Percussion Instruments in the Rituals of La- maism and South Siberian Shamanism

A. M. Sagalayev

Among the Sinhalese: the Discovery of Their Everyday Life

N. G. Krasnodembskaya

The Japanese National Ethnographical Museum

Yu. V. Bromley,  M. V. Kriukov

Searchings, Facts, Hypotheses

Chess: in Everyday Life, in the Family, in Tradition

I. M. Linder

Our Anniversaries

A List of Works by V. I. Kochnev (to His 60th Birth Anniversary)

Academic Life

The Fifth International Finno-Ugric Congress in Turku

N. V. Shlygina,  K. V. Čistov

The Problem of North Caucasian Feudalism at a Regional Scientific Conference

V. G. Gadzhiyev

Expeditions in Brief

Criticism and Bibliography

Critical Articles and Reviews

Soviet Finno-Ugric Studies 1975 to 1980

I. S. Gourvitch

General Ethnography

V. A. Shnirelman. The Origins of Animal Husbandry

V. P. Alexeyev

Peoples of the U.S.S.R.

An Attempt at an Ethnosociological Study of a Way of Life (the Case of the Moldavian SSR)

G. V. Starovoytova

Peoples of Asia outside the U.S.S.R.

Lands and Peoples of the East. 20th Issue: Lands and Peoples of the Pacific Basin

Ye. V. Ivanova