Number 4, 2023

Special Theme of the Issue

New Old Religions of the East: Shaping and Transformations

(guest editor S.I. Ryzhakova)

New Traditionalism and Religions of the South Asia

[Novyi traditsionalizm i religii Yuzhnoi Azii]

pp. 5–22

Return of the Stolen God: The Sora Cult of Mattar Banom (an Ethnolinguistic Analysis)

[Vozvrashchenie ukradennogo boga: kul’t Mattar Banom u sora (etnolingvisticheskii analiz)]

pp. 23–40

Sanamakhism of Meitei: “New Ancient” Religion of Manipur

[Sanamakhizm u meitei: “novaia staraia” religiia Manipura]

pp. 41–65

The “Kirat Religion” in Nepal: Quest for a New Religious and Ethnic Identity

[Religiia kiratov v Nepale: poiski novoi etnoreligioznoi identichnosti]

pp. 66–83

Heraka: Historical Memory and New Mythology of Naga Tribes

[Kheraka: istoricheskaia pamiat’ i novaia mifologiia u naga]

pp. 84–93

Navayana of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: Buddhist Modernism as an Instrument of Social Transformation

[Navaiana Bkhimrao Ramdzhi Ambedkara: buddiiskii modernizm kak instrument sotsial’nykh preobrazovanii]

pp. 94–107

Discussion

A Critical Paradigm for the Histories of Anthropology: The Generalization of Transportable Knowledge

[Kriticheskaia paradigma dlia istorii antropologii: k kharakteristikam perenosimogo znaniia]

pp. 108–182

Population Census

Counting the Peoples or Deconstructing Population Censuses

[O perepisyvanii narodov, ili dekonstruktsiia perepisei naseleniia]

pp. 183–211

Deconstruction of Population Censuses: Comments and Considerations

[Dekonstruktsiia perepisei naseleniia: kommentarii i rassuzhdeniia]

pp. 212–242