Special Theme of the Issue
The Icon and the Axe: Discourses on Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Russian Culture
(guest editor A.A. Panchenko)
Ritual Agency and Moral Panics: Toward the Anthropology of Blasphemy and Sacrilege
[Ritual’naia agentnost’ i moral’nye paniki: k antropologii bogokhul’stva i sviatotatstva]
pp. 5–20
Peasants, Icons, and Obscenities
[Krest’iane, ikony i maternaia bran’]
pp. 21–51
Defiling the Portraits of State Leaders in the Soviet Culture of the Later Half of the 1950s – Early 1960s
[Oskvernenie portretov gosudarstvennykh liderov v sovetskoi kul’ture vtoroi poloviny 1950-kh – nachala 1960-kh godov]
pp. 52–65
The Sacralization of the Secular in Contemporary Russia: The “Desecration” of the Eternal Flame
[Sakralizatsiia sekuliarnogo v sovremennoi Rossii: “oskvernenie” Vechnogo ognia]
pp. 66–92
It Is “Blasphemy to Touch This Burial”: How Archaeologists Can Hurt the Feelings of Believers and Strengthen the Ethnic-Religious Identity in the North Ossetia – Alania
[“Trogat’ eto kladbishche – koshchunstvo”: kak arkheologicheskie raskopki mogut oskorbit’ chuvstva veruiushchikh i ukrepit’ etnoreligioznuiu identichnost’ v Severnoi Osetii – Alanii]
pp. 93-110
The “Sorrystan”: Public Apologies and Moral Order in Today’s Dagestan
[“Izvinistan”: publichnye izvineniia i moral’nyi poriadok v sovremennom Dagestane]
pp. 111-133
Non diis curae: The Rhetoric and Practices of Natural Punishment for Sacrilege
[Non diis curae: ritorika i praktiki estestvennogo nakazaniia za sviatotatstvo]
pp. 134-152
Research Articles
Ancestors against Order: Two Models of Immortal Regiment
[Predki protiv poriadka: dve modeli Bessmertnogo polka]
pp. 153-175
The People That Survived by a Miracle: On Ethnic Self-Presentation of the Kashubians
[“Narod, kotoryi kakim-to chudom sokhranilsia”: etnicheskaia samoprezentatsiia kashubov]
pp. 176-198
Men Who Practice Risky Hobbies Are More Physically Masculine
[Muzhchiny, praktikuiushchie riskovannye khobbi, otlichaiutsia bol’shei fizicheskoi maskulinnost’iu]
pp. 199-221
Book Reviews and Critiques
Unknown Pages from the Life of the Ainu [Neizvestnye stranitsy zhizni ainov]: А Review of Ainy glazami yapontsev: neizvestnaia kollektsiia A.V. Grigor’ieva [Ainu through the Eyes of the Japanese: An Unknown Collection by Alexander Grigoriev], by V.V. Shchepkin
pp. 222-226
Beach as a Sociocultural Phenomenon through the Eyes of Czech Ethnologists [Pliazh kak sotsiokul’turnyi fenomen glazami cheshskikh etnologov]: A Review of Etnologie pláže [Ethnology of the Beach], by O.D. Lozoviuk and M. Vítková
pp. 227-231
The Death of the Author of the Term Paper [Smert’ avtora diplomnoi raboty]: A Review of Etnografiia tufty. Kto i kak pishet zakaznye uchebnye raboty v Rossii [Ethnography of Baloney: Who, and How, Ghostwrites Academic Papers in Russia], by A. Davydov and P. Abramov.
pp. 232-237
Homo Sapiens – An Evolutionary Accident? [Homo sapiens – evolyutsionnaia sluchainost’?]: А Review of Chelovek neozhidannyi. Genetika, povedenie i svoboda vybora [The Accidental Homo Sapiens: Genetics, Behavior and Free Will], by Y. Tattersall and R. DeSalle
pp. 238-242