Special Theme of the Issue
Blood Feud in the Context of Modernity: A Component of Traditional Culture and a Relic of Custom Law
(guest editors O. D. Fais-Leutskaia and A. A. Novik)
The Practice of Blood Feud in the Modern World: Continuing Research in the Vein of Criminal Anthropology
[Praktika krovnoi mesti v sovremennom mire: prodolzhaia issledovanie v rusle antropologii kriminal’nosti]
pp. 5–24
Practices of Blood Feud Reconciliation in the North Caucasus: A Historical and Ethnographic Analysis
[Praktiki primireniia krovnoi mesti na Severnom Kavkaze: istoricheskii i etnograficheskii analiz]
pp. 25–45
On Revenge and Death: The Laws of the Highlanders and the Institution of Honor among Albanians in the Balkans
[O mesti i smerti: zakony gortsev i institut chesti u albantsev Balkan]
pp. 46–68
Features of Vendetta in Crete in the 20th–21st Centuries
[Osobennosti vendetty na Krite v XX–XXI vv.]
pp. 69–85
Blood Feud in Sardinia: On the Question of the Vitality of Tradition
[Krovnaia mest’ v Sardinii: k voprosu o vital’nosti traditsii]
pp. 86–105
From Blood Feuds to Acts of Worship: Images, Rituals, and Concepts of Power in the Sacral and Ceremonial Practice of the Mafia
[Ot krovnoi mesti k aktam pokloneniia: obrazy, ritualy i kontsepty sily v sakral’notseremonial’noi praktike mafii]
pp. 106–121
Visual Anthropology
Public Visual Anthropology as a Form of Cultural Mediation: “Sincere Conversations” in Media Projects about Contemporary Dagestan
[Publichnaia vizual’naia antropologiia kak forma kul’turnogo posrednichestva: “otkrovennye razgovory” v mediaproektakh o sovremennom Dagestane]
pp. 122–142
Human Ethology
Facial and Body Sexual Dimorphism in Four Traditional African Populations: Relevance Today
[Polovoi dimorfizm litsa i tela v chetyrekh traditsionnykh afrikanskikh populiatsiiakh: aktual’nost’ izucheniia segodnia]
pp. 143–170
Research Articles
Categorization of Clients in the Work of Street-Level Bureaucracy: “Next!”
[Kategorizatsiia klientov v rabote nizovykh biurokratov: “Sleduiushchii!”]
pp. 171–193
Book Reviews and Critiques
Anthropological and Archaeological American Studies in the 19th Century: On the Way to Science
[Antropologo-arkheologicheskaia latinoamerikanistika v ⅩIX v.: na puti k nauke]
pp. 194–212
Constructing the Future: Russia in an Anthropological Perspective [Konstruiruia budushchee: Rossiia v antropologicheskoi perspektive]: A Review of Rossiia: vospriiatie budushchego. Opyt sotsial’no-antropologicheskogo issledovaniia [Russia, Perception of the Future: The Experience of Socio-Anthropological Research], edited by V.A. Tishkov and O.V. Kulbachevskaya
pp. 213–222
Landscapes and Affordances [Landshafty i affordansy]: A Review of Provotsiruiushchie landshafty: gorodskie periferii Urala i Zaural’ia [Provocative Landscapes: Urban Peripheries of the Urals and the Transural Region], edited by F. Korandei
pp. 223–228
Moral Dilemmas and Judicial Discretion of the Producers of Academic and Bureaucratic Knowledge [Moral’nye dilemmy i diskretsiia proizvoditelei nauchnogo i biurokraticheskogo znaniia]: A Review of “Bezdushnye biurokraty”: kak ustroena rabota organov opeki [“Heartless Bureaucrats”: How Child Protection Services Work], by A.A. Martynenko
pp. 229–234