Number 3, 2026

Special Theme of the Issue

Theories in Conflict: Discussion as a Mechanism of Social Knowledge Growth

(guest editor S.V. Sokolovskiy)

Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Configurations in Anthropological Disciplines

[Mezhdistsiplinarnost’ i konfiguratsii znaniia v antropologicheskikh distsiplinakh]

pp. 5–13

Icons and People: Discourses, Practices, and the Reassembling of Concepts in the 20th Century

[Ikony i liudi: diskursy, praktiki i peresborka poniatii v XX v.]

pp. 14–35

Towards the Integration of Ethnicity Studies and Kinship Studies in the Context of Four-Field and Multiparadigmatic Anthropology

[K integratsii teorii etnosa/naroda i teorii rodstva v kontekste mezhdistsiplinarnoi i mul’tiparadigmaticheskoi antropologii]

pp. 36–55

Theoretical Knowledge Issues in Russian Legal Anthropology: Afterword to a Dialogue That Didn’t Happen

[Problemy teoreticheskogo znaniia v rossiiskoi yuridicheskoi antropologii: posleslovie k nesostoiavshemusia dialogu]

pp. 56–72

From Workplace to a Space of Labor: The Case of Seasonal Contract Wild Berry Pickers in Karelia

[Ot rabochego mesta k prostranstvu truda: sluchai kontraktnykh sezonnykh sborshchikov dikorastushchikh yagod v Karelii]

pp. 73–99

Freezing in the “Culinary Triangle”: Nutrition Practices among the Reindeer Herders, Hunters, and Fishermen of Western Siberia

[Zamorozka v “kulinarnom treugol’nike”: praktiki pitaniia olenevodov, okhotnikov i rybakov Zapadnoi Sibiri]

pp. 100–121

Multiparadigmatic Knowledge as a Problem: Concepts of Mind in Cognitive Anthropology

[Mul’tiparadigmal’nost’ kak problema: kontseptsii razuma v kognitivnoi antropologii]

pp. 122–141

Human Ethology

A Cross-Cultural Study of Paternal Behavior as Assessed by Contemporary Youth

[Kross-kul’turnoe issledovanie ottsovskogo povedeniia po otsenkam sovremennoi molodezhi]

pp. 142–167

Research Articles

Social Aesthetics of the Karelian Language: Covert Prestige and Performative Practices

[Sotsial’naia estetika karel’skogo yazyka: skrytyi prestizh i performativnye praktiki]

pp. 168–187

Sociocultural Space of the Capanahua People of the Tapiche River (Peru, Loreto)

[Sotsiokul’turnoe prostranstvo kapanaua r. Tapiche (Peru, Loreto)]

pp. 188–209

“Book Bazaars” in the Late Soviet City: Functions, Mechanisms, Participants

[“Knizhnye bazary” v pozdnesovetskom gorode: funktsii, mekhanizmy, uchastniki]

pp. 210–229

Book Reviews and Critiques

German Studies – Is It Germanistik or Ethnography of Germany in the American Vein? [German Studies – eto germanistika ili etnografiia Germanii po-amerikanski?]: A Review of Former Neighbors, Future Allies? German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue, edited by A. Dana Weber.

pp. 230–237

The Origin of Homo sapiens: Three Unities or Bricolage? Evidence from the Eastern Distribution Range of Early Homo sapiens [Proiskhozhdenie Homo sapiens: tri edinstva ili brikolazh? Svidetel’stva iz vostochnoi chasti oikumeny]: A Review of In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: Following Homo sapiens into Asia and Oceania, edited by T. Ueki, G.R. Summerhayes, and P. Hiscock

pp. 238–244