Number 6, 2025

Special Theme of the Issue

Housing and Communal Services in the North: Living Environment in the Conditions of Remoteness and Deficit

(guest editors N.S. Goncharov, V.N. Davydov)

Northern Dimension of Housing and Communal Services: An Anthropological Perspective

[Severnoe izmerenie zhilishchno-kommunal’nogo khoziaistva v antropologicheskoi perspektive]

pp. 7–13

Heterogeneity of the Public Utility Services: Ethnography of Sources of Electricity, Heat, and Water in Yakutia and the Arkhangelsk Region

[Geterogennost’ ZhKKh: etnografiia istochnikov elektroenergii, tepla i vody v Yakutii i Arkhangel’skoi oblasti]

pp. 14–36

Taimyr’s Ecological Challenges: Local Strategies for Recycling Municipal Solid Waste

[Ekologicheskie vyzovy Taimyra: mestnyye strategii utilizatsii tverdykh kommunal’nykh otkhodov]

pp. 37–50

Housing and Communal Services and Subsidiary Economy in Chukotka: Dynamics of Materiality of the Northern Village

[Zhilishchno-kommunal’noe i podsobnoe khoziaistvа na Chukotke: dinamika material’nosti severnogo selа]

pp. 51–65

Lorino Hot Springs: Soviet Experience of Land Development and Unutilized Opportunities in Chukotka

[Lorinskie goriachie kliuchi: sovetskii opyt osvoeniia prostranstva i neispol’zovannye vozmozhnosti na Chukotke]

pp. 66–80

Discussion

Difficult Heritage: A Moral Reboot

[Trudnoe nasledie: moral’naia perezagruzka]

pp. 81–96

Difficult Heritage: Terms, Interpretations, Discussions

[Trudnoe nasledie: terminologiia, interpretatsii, rassuzhdeniia]

pp. 97–118

Human Ethology

How Robots Enter Our Lives: Latest Research on Proxemical Behavior

[Kak roboty vkhodiat v nashu zhizn’? Noveishie issledovaniia proksemicheskogo povedeniia]

pp. 119–145

Facial Expressions in an Ordinary Conversation among Kabardinians: A Facial Analysis Employing the FaceReader System

[Mimika v neitral’noi besede kabardintsev: analiz litsa sistemoi FaceReader]

pp. 146–167

Research Articles

Research Infrastructures of Russian Laboratories: Before and After Sanctions

[Issledovatel’skie infrastruktury rossiiskikh laboratorii: do i posle sanktsii]

pp. 168–191

Creating the Russian Geographical Society through the Lens of Interpersonal Communication: People and Their Apartments

[Sozdanie Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva skvoz’ prizmu mezhlichnostnykh sviazei: liudi i kvartiry]

pp. 192–211

The “Collective Irresponsible”: On Attempts at Building a “Society” in a St. Petersburg Commune

[“Kollektivnoe bezotvetstvennoe”: o popytkakh sozdat’ “obshchestvo” v peterburgskoi kommune]

pp. 212–233

Book Reviews and Critiques

The Right to Remain Cold [Pravo ostavat’sia kholodnym]: A Review of Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North, edited by O. Ulturgasheva and B. Bodenhorn.

pp. 234–237

Between Control and Autonomy: Liminal Worlds of the “Empty” Spaces of Siberia [Mezhdu kontrolem i avtonomiei: liminal’nye miry “pustykh” prostranstv Sibiri]: A Review of Zhizn’ v pustote: antropologicheskie ocherki sotsial’nogo prostranstva za predelami vlastnogo regulirovaniia [Life in the Void: Anthropological Essays on Social Space Beyond Governmental Regulation], by L.E. Bliakher, K.V. Grigorichev, and A.V. Kovalevskii

pp. 238–242

New English Translation of the Rare Publications by André Leroi-Gourhan [Novyi perevod redkikh publikatsii André Leroi-Gourhana]: A Review of André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, edited by N. Schlanger

pp. 243–248