Number 5, 2025

Special Theme of the Issue

125th Anniversary of Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev: Materials, Assessments, Reminiscences

Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev and Contemporary Yakut Studies

[Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev i sovremennoe yakutovedenie]

pp. 5–26

A Sociological Theory of Shamanism by S.A. Tokarev and Shamanism of Indigenous Peoples of the Far East

[Sotsiologicheskaia teoriia shamanizma S.A. Tokareva i shamanizm korennykh narodov Dal’nego Vostoka]

pp. 27–39

Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev and “Mythologies of Peoples of the World”: Structuralism and History (On the Story of an Encyclopedia)

[Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev i “Mify narodov mira”: strukturalizm i istoriia (k istorii sozdaniia entsiklopedii)]

pp. 40–45

Letters from S.A. Tokarev to Y.V. Knorozov in the Collection of Kunstkamera Archive

[Pis’ma S.A. Tokareva Y.V. Knorozovu iz Nauchnogo arkhiva MAE (Kunstkamera) RAN]

pp. 46–84

Ethnography and Literary Genre: Junctions

Ethnography of I.I. Zheleznov’s “Tales of the Ural Cossacks”

[Etnografizm “Skazanii ural’skikh kazakov” I.I. Zheleznova]

pp. 85–101

Image of Perception of the Chinese in Maksimov’s Book “In the East: A Trip to Amur: Travel Notes and Memoirs”, 1860–61

[Obraz vospriiatia kitaitsev v knige S.V. Maksimova “Na Vostoke. Poezdka na Amur: dorozhnye zametki i vospominaniia” (1860–1861)]

pp. 102–122

Tight Belt for Lefty: A Forgotten Element of the Road Tradition of Russia

[Tugoi remen’ dlia Levshi: zabytyi element dorozhnoi traditsii Rossii]

pp. 123–137

Road as a Social Space: An Attempt at Reconstruction Through Twentieth-Century Soviet and Post-Soviet Travel Prose

[Doroga kak sotsial’noe prostranstvo: opyt rekonstruktsii po sovetskoi i postsovetskoi putevoi proze XX v.]

pp. 138–156

Reader’s Space: Tsvetaeva’s Bonfires in the Light of the Cultural Scene Concept

[Prostranstvo chitatelia: Tsvetaevskie kostry v svete kontseptsii kul’turnoi stseny]

pp. 157–178

Overcoming Boundaries: Life and Work of Nikolai Aboimov

[Preodolenie granits: zhizn’ i tvorchestvo Nikolaia Aboimova]

pp. 179–199

Research Articles

Institutions of Conscience: Beliefs and Experience in the Procedure of Substituting Military Service with Alternative Service

[Instituty sovesti: ubezhdeniia i opyt v protsedure zameny voennoi sluzhby na al’ternativnuiu]

pp. 200–222

Academic Hypotheses on the Ethnic Origins of the Armenians

[Nauchnye gipotezy etnogeneza armian]

pp. 223–242

Book Reviews and Critiques

How People Talk and Write about Identity Today [Kak segodnia govoriat i pishut ob identichnosti]: A Review of Identichnost’: lichnost’, obshchestvo, politika. Novye kontury issledovatel’skogo polia [Identity: Personality, Society, Politics: New Contours of the Research Field], edited by I.S. Semenenko

pp. 243–247

The “Mongrels-in-Between” and Other Awkwardnesses: An Unscientific Translation of an Anthropological Text [“Boldyri-mezhdu zdes” i drugie nesuraznosti: nenauchnyi perevod antropologicheskogo teksta]: A Review of Skazhi moei loshadi. Vudu v obychnoi zhizni na Gaiti i Yamaike [Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica], by Z.N. Hurston

pp. 248–256