Number 4, 2020

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