History of the Discipline
The Ethnographer Boris Aleksandrovich Vasiliev and his Essay “Five Days among Orochis”: Writing Strategies in Soviet Ethnography
[Etnograf Boris Aleksandrovich Vasiliev i ego ocherk “Piat’ dnei sredi orochei”: strategii pis’ma v sovetskoi etnografii]
pp. 5–22
Piat’ dnei sredi orochei
[Five Days among Orochis]
pp. 23–43
Ivan Poliakov’s Collection as the First Experience of an Integrated Photo Research of Western Siberia
[Kollektsiia I.S. Poliakova kak pervyi opyt kompleksnogo fotoissledovaniia Zapadnoi Sibiri]
pp. 35–53
Octavio Paz and Indian Avant-Garde: On an Episode of Reception of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Work in the 1960s
[Oktavio Pas i indiiskii avangard: ob odnom epizode retseptsii rabot Kloda Levi-Strosa v 1960-e gody]
pp. 54–75
Ethnographic Studies of Folk Beliefs
Karakalpaks’ Magical Beliefs Associated with Children’s Rituals
[Magicheskie pred- stavleniia karakalpakov, sviazannye s detskoi obriadnost’iu]
pp. 76–94
Bargut Oboo in Eastern Mongolia
[Bargutskie oboo v Vostochnoi Mongolii]
pp. 95–109
Research Articles
Between the Shapsug and the Abkhaz: Actualization of Identities of the Ubykh Clan Chéren
[Mezhdu shapsugami i abkhazami: aktualizatsiia identichnostei ubykhskoi familii Chéren]
pp. 110–129
Population of Afghanistan in the 19th Century: Some Demographic Trends
[Naselenie Afganistana v XIX v.: nekotorye demograficheskie tendentsii]
pp. 128–148
“Fatal” Diagnosis and Rites of Passage: Self-Representation of Disabled People and Their Statuses in Contemporary Russia
[“Rokovoi” diagnoz kak nachalo obriada perekhoda: status invalida i otnoshenie k nemu v sovremennoi Rossii]
pp. 149–161
Number of Siblings, Birth Order and Their Impacts on Individual Cooperativeness in Adulthood: An Experimental Study among Buryats of Eastern Siberia
[Vliianie chisla siblingov i ocherednosti rozhdeniia na individual’nuiu kooperativnost’ vo vzroslom vozraste: eksperimental’noe issledovanie sredi buriat]
pp. 162–184
Book Reviews
Review of Poslednii genii XX veka: Yurii Knorozov: sud’ba uchenogo [The Last Genius of the 20th Century: Yuri Knorozov: The Fate of a Scholar], by G.G. Ershova
pp. 185–188
Review of Le statut de Métis au Canada. Histoire, identité et enjeux sociaux, by D. Gagnon
pp. 188–191
Review of Ocherki istorii finno-ugorskikh etnograficheskikh issledovanii v Rossii (vtoraia polovina XIX – nachalo XX v.) [Essays in the History of Finno-Ugric Ethnographic Research in Russia (the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Centuries)], by A.E. Zagrebin
pp. 192–195
Review of Palomniki. Etnograficheskie ocherki pravoslavnogo nomadizma [Pilgrims: Ethnographic Sketches of the Orthodox Nomadism], by J.V. Kormina
pp. 196–198