Special Theme of the Issue
Composts and Palimpsests: Russian Dachas in the Focus of Social Sciences
(guest editors A. K. Kasatkina and P. S. Kupriyanov)
On the Mysterious Russian… Dacha
[O zagadochnoi russkoi… dache]
pp. 5–13
The Diversity of Dachas in Russia and the Role of Urban Residents in Preserving the Development of Rural Lands
[Raznoobrazie dach v Rossii i rol’ gorozhan v sokhranenii osvoennosti sel’skoi mestnosti]
pp. 14–41
A Socialist Dacha? The Order of Discourse on Amateur Gardening among Urban Residents and Its Dynamic in the Late Soviet Era
[Sotsialisticheskaia dacha? Poriadok diskursa liubitel’skogo sadovodstva gorozhan i ego dinamika v pozdnesovetskuiu epokhu]
pp. 42–63
Chemical and Organic Fertilizers in the Agricultural Practices of Siberians: Spatial and Multispecies Relationships
[Khimicheskie i organicheskie udobreniia v agrarnykh praktikakh sibiriakov: prostranstvennye i mul’tividovye otnosheniia]
pp. 64–79
A Dacha Refuge for the Siberian Kupala Tradition: How Children’s Dacha Communities of Novosibirsk Reinvented the Celebration of Ivan Kupala Day in the Second Half of the 20th Century
[Dachnyi priiut sibirskoi kupal’skoi traditsii: kak detskie dachnye soobshchestva Novosibirska pereizobreli prazdnovanie dnia Ivana Kupaly vo vtoroi polovine XX v.]
pp. 80–95
The Dacha Belt around St. Petersburg / Leningrad as Palimpsest, 1920–1930s
[Dachnoe prostranstvo vokrug Peterburga/Leningrada kak palimpsest (1920–1930-e gody)]
pp. 96–119
Gender Studies
Childbirth Positions during the Transition from Traditional to Clinical Obstetrics (18th – Early 20th Centuries)
[Rodil’nye pozy pri perekhode ot narodnogo rodovspomozheniia k klinicheskomu akusherstvu (XVIII – nachalo XX v.)]
pp. 120–141
Informed Voluntary Consent in Action and Over Time: Rituals of Production and Routing of Forms, Data, and Signatures in Maternity Hospitals
[Informirovannoe dobrovol’noe soglasie v deistvii i vo vremeni: ritualy proizvodstva i marshrutizatsii blankov, svedenii i podpisei v rodovspomozhenii]
pp. 142–163
Stereotypes about Women in the Physical and Engineering Sciences in the 1970s–1990s
[Stereotipy o zhenshchinakh v fizicheskikh i tekhnicheskikh naukakh v 1970–1990-e gody]
pp. 164–188
History of the Discipline
Vladimir Peredolsky, The Jewish Question and the Problem of Race (Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of His Death)
[Vladimir Peredol’skii, evreiskii vopros i problema rasy (k 90-letiiu so dnia smerti)]
pp. 189–205
Research Articles
The Karakalpak Name-Giving Tradition Related to the Loss of Children in the Family (Cases of Karakalpakstan, and the Navoi and Samarkand Regions)
[Karakalpakskaia traditsiia imianarecheniia, sviazannaia s poterei v sem’ie detei (na primere karakalpakov Karakalpakstana, Navoiiskoi i Samarkandskoi oblastei)]
pp. 206–227
Оn the Current State of the Festivе Culture in Sardinia
[K voprosu o sovremennom sostoianii prazdnichnoi kul’tury Sardinii]
pp. 228–249
Book Reviews and Critiques
On the Old Question of Theory in Bourgeois Social Sciences [K staromu voprosu o teorii v burzhuaznykh obshchestvennykh naukakh]: A Review of Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? The Intellectual World War: Marxism versus the Imperial Theory Industry, by G. Rockhill
pp. 250–256
Global Dreams and Local Expectations: Towards an Anthropology of the Unfulfilled in the Arctic [Global’nye mechty i lokal’nye ozhidaniia: k antropologii nerealizovannogo v Arktike]: A Review of Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, edited by N. Magnani and M. Magnani
pp. 257–262