Special Theme of the Issue
Homo Carnivorus: Traditions of Meat Preservation in Southern and Central Europe
(guest editor O.D. Fais-Leutskaia and M.Yu. Martynova)
Anthropology of Food: Destinies of Meat Delicacies in Europe
[Antropologiia pitaniia: sud’by miasnykh delikatesov v Evrope]
pp. 5–14
Prosciutto: From the Symbol of Italy to the Sign of Regional Development
[Prosciutto: ot simvola Italii do znaka razvitiia regionov]
pp. 15–30
Spanish Jamon: Cultural and Historical Aspects
[Ispanskii khamon: istoriko-kul’turnyi aspekt]
pp. 31–41
Pršut as an Element of Cultural Convergence in the Food Habits of Croats, Montenegrins, and Serbs
[Prshut kak sostavnaia chast’ naplastovaniia kul’tur v traditsiiakh pitaniia khorvatov, chernogortsev i serbov]
pp. 42–56
Pastroma as a Marker of Bulgarians’ Cultural Identity
[Past’rma kak marker kul’turnoi identichnosti bolgar]
pp. 57–71
Speck: A Popular Symbol, Touristic Brand, and Political Tool
[Shpek: narodnyi simvol, turisticheskii trend i politicheskii instrument]
pp. 72-83
Ethnographic Studies of Local Groups of Russians
Personal Names among the Dukhobors
[Lichnye imena u dukhobortsev]
pp. 84–101
Chaldony and Samokhody: Myths of Identity and Ethnographic Reality
[Chaldony i samokhody: mify identichnosti i etnograficheskaia real’nost’]
pp. 102–115
Rites of the End of Wedding in the Traditional Culture of the Don Cossacks
[Obriady kontsa svad’by v traditsionnoi kul’ture donskikh kazakov]
pp. 116–131
History of the Discipline
In the Labyrinth of History and Politics: Soviet Studies of the Sakhalin Ainu (1946–1949)
[V labirinte istorii i politiki: sovetskie issledovaniia sakhalinskikh ainov (1946–1949 gg.)]
pp. 132–149
An Institutional History of Russian Ethnology: A Brief Overview
[Institutsional’naia istoriia rossiiskoi etnologii: kratkii obzor]
pp. 150–166
From “Islam Observed” to “Discursive Tradition”: On the Key Concepts of Western Anthropology of Islam
[Ot “nabliudaemogo islama” k “diskursivnoi traditsii”: o kliuchevykh kontseptsiiakh zapadnoi antropologii islama]
pp. 167–185
Book Reviews
Review of Tri veka rossiiskoi etnografii: stranitsy istorii [Three Centuries of Russian Ethnography: Pages of History], edited by A.A. Sirina, A.B. Teriukov, and M.F. Khartanovich
pp. 186–189
Review of Evenki Microcosm: Visual Analysis of Hunter-Gatherers’ Lifestyles in Eastern Siberia, by T. Safonova and I. Sántha
pp. 189–192