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