Number 2, 2026

Special Theme of the Issue

In Situ, in Vitro, in Silico: Classical and Contemporary Laboratory Ethnographies

(guest editor A. G. Kuznetsov)

Experiments, Computations, and “Reference Ethnography”: How to Bring Artificial Intelligence Down to Earth in Contemporary Laboratory Sciences?

[Eksperimenty, vychisleniia i “etalonnaia etnografiia”: kak prizemlit’ iskusstvennyi intellekt v sovremennykh laboratornykh naukakh?]

pp. 5–16

Ethnography of Science In Situ or Trans Situ: Some “Trivial” Lessons from Classical Lab Studies for the Anthropology of Science

[Etnografiia nauki in situ ili trans situ: “trivial’nye” uroki klassicheskikh issledovanii laboratorii dlia antropologii nauki]

pp. 17–42

Life Sciences In Vitro and In Silico: Computations, Artificial Intelligence and Experiments in a Chemoinformatics Laboratory

[Nauki o zhizni in vitro i in silico: vychisleniia, iskusstvennyi intellekt i eksperimenty v khemoinformaticheskoi laboratorii]

pp. 43–66

Neural Networks Acting for Science: Hidden Work and Reconfiguration of Practices at a Thermophysical Lab

[Neiroset’ dlia nauki v deistvii: nevidimaia rabota i peresborka praktik teplofizicheskoi laboratorii]

pp. 67–89

Discussion

Collectivization as Colonial Mimicry: Indigenous Population and the Creation of Modernity in the Yenisei North in the 1930s

[Kollektivizatsiia kak kolonial’naia mimikriia: indigennoe naselenie i sozdanie modernosti na Eniseiskom Severe v 1930-e gody]

pp. 90–113

Debating Colonization of the North and Postcolonial Optics

[Diskutiruia o kolonizatsii Severa i postkolonial’noi optike]

pp. 114–138

Inquiries, Facts, Hypotheses

Foundations of the New (Old) Concept of Ethnic Origins of the Ancient Bulgarians

[Оsnovy novoi (staroi) kontseptsii etnogeneza drevnikh bolgar]

pp. 139–158

Reflections on the Ethnic and Cultural Situation in the Middle Volga Area in Early Mediaeval Times

[Razmyshleniia ob etnokul’turnoi situatsii v Srednem Povolzh’ie v rannem Srednevekov’ie]

pp. 159–176

Research Articles

Aurukun Mission and Its People: Clashing Traditions, Clashing Values

[Missiia Aurukuna i ee obitateli (stolknovenie kul’tur, stolknovenie tsennostei)]

pp. 177–201

Representation of Indigenous Minorities in Memes (Cases of the Chukchi, Nenets, and Southern Selkups)

[Reprezentatsiia korennykh malochislennykh narodov v memakh (na primere chukchei, nentsev i iuzhnykh sel’kupov)]

pp. 202–227

Book Reviews and Critiques

On the Ethics of Editing Ethnographic Films (a Comment on the Production of the Film “Taboo: The Last Shaman”, Ethno-Online, 2005)

[Ob etike redaktirovaniia etnograficheskikh fil’mov (kommentarii k proizvodstvu fil’ma “Tabu. Poslednii shaman”: Etno-Onlain 2005)]

pp. 228–237

Table of correspondence between archival and current digital object identifiers (DOI) of journal issues for 2025

pp. 238–246