Number 1, 2006

Special Theme of the Issue

Destinies of Fenno-Ugric Peoples and Politics

(guest editor: S.V. Cheshko)

[Editorial]

On the Condition of Fenno-Ugric Peoples in Russia

V. A Tishkov

Once Again on the Destinies of “Fenno-Ugric Peoples”: A Commentary to PACE Documents on Cultures of “Uralic Minorities”

S. V. Sokolovski

“New Identities” among Fenno-Ugric Peoples as Political Tools

Y. P. Shabaev

Documents

Armenian Studies: History and the Present

Serik Davtyan, a Scholar of Armenian Decorative Arts and Crafts (1893-1978)

A. A. Stepanian

Krasnodar – Karabakh – Moscow: An Essay in Dialogic Autoethnography

A. A. Kosmarskii,  N. R. Shakhnazarian

Problems of Adaptation and Integration of Armenian Migrants in the Krasnodar Region

K. V. Koriakin

Studies of Armenians in Russia

E. Y. Firsov

Interview

To See the Human behind Cultural Distinctiveness… (an Interview with Alain Blum)

E. L. Filippova

Articles

“Bread Mantras” and “Japanese Bowls” among the Latvians: On the Issues of Authenticity and “Regimes of Truth” in Contemporary Ethnography

S. I. Ryzhakova

The Phenomenon of Stability of the Uilta Ethnic Identity in the Context of History of Ethnic Self-Designations among the Peoples of the North (the Late 19th – the Beginning of the 21st Centuries)

L. I. Missonova,  Z. P. Sokolova

A Reflection of Social Values in the Clothing of the Northern Caucasus Population of the Mediaeval Times

Z. V. Dode

Inquiries, Facts, Hypotheses

Descendants, So Unpredicted…

S. Y. Kozlov

Book Reviews

Review of Shvedy i russkie: obraz soseda (Swedes and Russians: Image of the Neighbour), by O.V. Chemysheva. Moscow, 2004

E. A. Sorokina

Review of Sem’ia vo frantsuzskom obshchestve: XVIII- nachalo XX veka (Family in the French Society: the 18th – early 20th centuries), by M.K. Liubart. Moscow, 2005

M. T. Arzakanian

Review of Bania ipech v russkoi narodnoi traditsii (Bath and Stove in the Russian Tradition), ed. by V.A, Lipinskaia. Moscow, 2004

T. P. Fedianovich

Review of Etnopoliticheskaia istoriia Tuvy v XX veke (Ethnopolitical History of Tuva in the 20th century), by N.P. Moskalenko. Moscow, 2004

C. B. Ondar

In Memoriam

Rail Gumerovich Kuzeev