Number 4, 2025

Special Theme of the Issue

Ethnography of Performing Arts

(guest editor S.I. Ryzhakova)

Ethnography of Dance and Ritual Theatre: New Formats of Traditional Performances

[Etnografiia tantsa i ritual’nogo teatra: novye formaty traditsionnykh predstavlenii]

pp. 5–8

Ainu Traditional Dance as an “Exhibit” of Museum Culture and as an Element of Ethnic Tourism

[Ainskii traditsionnyi tanets kak eksponat muzeinoi kul’tury i kak element etnicheskogo turizma]

pp. 9–21

Warrior Exercises That Become a Dance: Kalaripayattu, Thang-Ta, Raibenshe, Natua in Today’s India

[Uprazhneniia voinov, stanoviashchiesia tantsem: traditsii kalarippaiattu, tang-ta, raibenshe, natua v sovremennoi Indii]

pp. 22–43

The Ta’ziyeh: Sacred Act of Muslims in India and Iran

[Taziia: sviashchennoe deistvo u musul’man Indii i Irana]

pp. 44–56

Irish Dance in the Modern World: Setting of Pub, Competition, and Stage

[Irlandskie tantsy v sovremennom mire: v pabe, na sorevnovaniiakh, na stsene]

pp. 57–73

Continuity and Change in the Scottish Dancing Tradition in the 19th–21st Centuries as Exemplified by the “Reel of Tulloch”

[Preemstvennost’ i izmenchivost’ v shotlandskoi tantseval’noi traditsii v XIX–XXI vv. na primere “Tallokhskogo rila”]

pp. 74–90

Archival Research

The Legend of the Defense of Fort Ross by the Kashaya Indians

[Predanie ob oborone kreposti Ross indeitsami kashaia]

pp. 91–108

Boris Matveyevich Sokolov and Museum Work in the USSR of the 1920s

[Boris Matveevich Sokolov i muzeinoe delo v SSSR 1920-kh godov]

pp. 109–129

A 1953 Memo of the Department of Science and Culture of the Central Committee of the CPSU on Measures for Improving the Work of the Journal Sovetskaia Etnografiia

[Zapiska Otdela nauki i kul’tury TsK KPSS o merakh uluchsheniia raboty zhurnala “Sovetskaia etnografiia”, 1953 g.]

pp. 130–148

Research Articles

Tabarnia: A Political Game of “Imagined Community”

[Tabarniia: politicheskaia igra v “voobrazhaemoe soobshchestvo”]

pp. 149–163

Kudel-Drem: An Interpretation of the Red Hill Rituals among the Don Cossacks

[Kudelia-Drema: opyt interpretatsii obriadnosti Krasnoi gorki u donskikh verkhovykh kazakov]

pp. 164–184

Biology and Culture: Ethnographic and Anthropological Perspectives on Gene-Culture Coevolution

[Biologiia i kul’tura: etnograficheskie i antropologicheskie rakursy genno-kul’turnoi koevoliutsii]

pp. 185–206

Book Reviews and Critiques

Heritage, Politics, and the Politics of Heritage [Nasledie, politika i politika naslediia]: A Review of The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics, edited by G. Bozoğlu, G. Campbell, L. Smith, and C. Whitehead

pp. 207–212

Unattained West, Lost East [Ne dostignutyi Zapad, utrachennyi Vostok]: A Review of Greece Between East and West: Culture and Geopolitics, edited by R. Pine

pp. 213–218

Unknown Ethnography of the Far East [Neizvestnaia etnografiia Dal’nego Vostoka]: A Review of Tungusy Aldano-Maiskogo i Aiano-Okhotskogo raionov [Tungusic Peoples of the Aldano-Maiskii and Aiano-Okhotskii Districts], by V.N. Vasiliev

pp. 219–224