Special Theme of the Issue
Ritualism in the Space of a Contemporary City
(guest editor D.V. Gromov)
The Language of Grief in Public Space: Practices of Creating “Spontaneous” Memorials in Modern Russia
[Yazyk skorbi v publichnom prostranstve: praktiki sozdaniia “spontannykh” memorialov v sovremennoi Rossii]
pp. 5–22
Monuments to Saints: Controversies and Uncertainties Around the Sacral Landscape of Russian Cities
[Pamiatniki sviatym: protivorechiia i neopredelennosti sakral’nogo landshafta rossiiskikh gorodov]
pp. 23–45
Apotropaic Practices in the Car Owners’ Milieu: A Big City Experience
[Apotropeicheskie praktiki v srede avtovladel’tsev: opyt bol’shogo goroda]
pp. 46–63
Visual Anthropology
Cinema-Atlas of the USSR: “In Bryansk Polesie”
[Kinoatlas SSSR: “V Brianskom Poles’ie”]
pp. 64–86
Traditional and Non-Traditional Means of Visualizing the Ritе: The “Bear Festival” of the Nivkhi and Ainu (Mid-19th – Late 20th Centuries)
[Traditsionnye i netraditsionnye (spetsificheskie) sredstva vizualizatsii obriada: “medvezhii prazdnik” nivhov i ainov (seredina XIX – konets XX v.)]
pp. 87–111
Biological Anthropology
Regional Variations in the Influence of Sociocultural Factors on the Somatic Features of Modern Youth
[Regional’nye osobennosti vliianiia sotsiokul’turnykh faktorov na tekoslozhenie sovremennoi molodezhi]
pp. 112–134
History of the Discipline
Fieldwork from the Perspective of Administrative Documentation of the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
[Polevaia rabota s tochki zreniia upravlencheskoi dokumentatsii Instituta etnografii AN SSSR]
pp. 135–159
Research Articles
On the History of Developing the Foundations of Sources and Historiography for Research on Everyday Life of Bolshevik Elites
[K istorii skladyvaniia istochnikovoi i istoriograficheskoi bazy dlia izucheniia povsednevnosti bol’shevistskoi elity]
pp. 160–176
Musical-Song Folklore in the Context of Funeral-Memorial Tradition of the Eastern Udmurts
[Myzykal’no-pesennyi folklor v kontekste pohoronno-pominal’noi traditsii zakamskikh udmurtov]
pp. 177–197
Book Reviews and Critiques
Indigenous People of Spanish America: Between Scylla and Charybdis [Indeitsy Ispanskoi Ameriki: mezhdu Stsilloi i Haribdoi]: A Review of Raiders and Natives: Cross-Cultural Relations in the Age of Buccaneers, by A. Bialuschewski.
pp. 198–203
Natives and Incomers in the Arctic as Described by Carlos Junquera Rubio [Avtohtony i prishel’tsy v Arltike v opisanii Karlosa Khunkery Rubio]: A Review of Los Europeos descubren el Ártico y las costas septentrionales de América: una visión general desde sus inicios hasta la geopolítica actual, by C. Junquera Rubio
pp. 204–208