Number 1, 2025

Special Theme of the Issue

Ritualism in the Space of a Contemporary City

(guest editor D.V. Gromov)

The Language of Grief in Public Space: Practices of Creating “Spontaneous” Memorials in Modern Russia

[Yazyk skorbi v publichnom prostranstve: praktiki sozdaniia “spontannykh” memorialov v sovremennoi Rossii]

pp. 5–22

Monuments to Saints: Controversies and Uncertainties Around the Sacral Landscape of Russian Cities

[Pamiatniki sviatym: protivorechiia i neopredelennosti sakral’nogo landshafta rossiiskikh gorodov]

pp. 23–45

Apotropaic Practices in the Car Owners’ Milieu: A Big City Experience

[Apotropeicheskie praktiki v srede avtovladel’tsev: opyt bol’shogo goroda]

pp. 46–63

Visual Anthropology

Cinema-Atlas of the USSR: “In Bryansk Polesie”

[Kinoatlas SSSR: “V Brianskom Poles’ie”]

pp. 64–86

Traditional and Non-Traditional Means of Visualizing the Ritе: The “Bear Festival” of the Nivkhi and Ainu (Mid-19th – Late 20th Centuries)

[Traditsionnye i netraditsionnye (spetsificheskie) sredstva vizualizatsii obriada: “medvezhii prazdnik” nivhov i ainov (seredina XIX – konets XX v.)]

pp. 87–111

Biological Anthropology

Regional Variations in the Influence of Sociocultural Factors on the Somatic Features of Modern Youth

[Regional’nye osobennosti vliianiia sotsiokul’turnykh faktorov na tekoslozhenie sovremennoi molodezhi]

pp. 112–134

History of the Discipline

Fieldwork from the Perspective of Administrative Documentation of the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR

[Polevaia rabota s tochki zreniia upravlencheskoi dokumentatsii Instituta etnografii AN SSSR]

pp. 135–159

Research Articles

On the History of Developing the Foundations of Sources and Historiography for Research on Everyday Life of Bolshevik Elites

[K istorii skladyvaniia istochnikovoi i istoriograficheskoi bazy dlia izucheniia povsednevnosti bol’shevistskoi elity]

pp. 160–176

Musical-Song Folklore in the Context of Funeral-Memorial Tradition of the Eastern Udmurts

[Myzykal’no-pesennyi folklor v kontekste pohoronno-pominal’noi traditsii zakamskikh udmurtov]

pp. 177–197

Book Reviews and Critiques

Indigenous People of Spanish America: Between Scylla and Charybdis [Indeitsy Ispanskoi Ameriki: mezhdu Stsilloi i Haribdoi]: A Review of Raiders and Natives: Cross-Cultural Relations in the Age of Buccaneers, by A. Bialuschewski.

pp. 198–203

Natives and Incomers in the Arctic as Described by Carlos Junquera Rubio [Avtohtony i prishel’tsy v Arltike v opisanii Karlosa Khunkery Rubio]: A Review of Los Europeos descubren el Ártico y las costas septentrionales de América: una visión general desde sus inicios hasta la geopolítica actual, by C. Junquera Rubio

pp. 204–208