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