Forum for Anthropology and Culture. 2016. No. 12

Forum 28: What is the Role of ‘Regional Studies’ in Contemporary Anthropology? — Exploring the Case of Central Asia

• From the Editorial Board
  
  Sergei Abashin, Aida Aaly Alymbaeva, Aksana Ismailbekova, Gulnara Aytpaeva, Alima Bissenova, Kulshat Medeuova, Anna Cieślewska, Svetlana Gorshenina, Diana Ibanez-Tirado, Magnus Marsden, Tokhir Kalandarov, Natalya Kosmarskaya, Emil Nasritdinov, Boris Pйtric, Madeleine Reeves, Igor Savin, Jesko Schmoller, Tommaso Trevisani, Zulaikho Usmanova
  
  From the Editors

Articles

• Elena Borisova. Parenting at a Distance: Transnational Practices in Migrant Families from Tajikistan
  
  
• Yuri Berezkin. The Spread of Folkloric Motifs as Information Exchange, or, Where East Meets West

Conspiracy Theory in Today’s Russia

• Alexander A. Panchenko. Introduction: Anthropology and Conspiracy Theory
  
  
• Anna Razuvalova. The Plot Device of Conspiracy in Nikolay Burlyaev’s film Lermontov and A Director’s Diary: on the ‘Ethnography of the Emotions’ of the National-Conservative Community
  
  
• Alexander Panchenko. The Computer Called The Beast: Eschatology and Conspiracy Theory in Modern Religious Cultures
  
  
• Jeanne Kormina. Killer Yeast: Gastronomic Conspiracy Theories and the Culture of Mistrust in Modern Russia
  
  
• Sergei Shtyrkov. ‘The Fight between Ases and Devas Runs through Our Whole Existence’: The Conspirological Imaginary of North Ossetian Intellectuals and the Search for Meaning in National History

Reviews

• Denis Letnyakov. Another South? A Review of Sophie Hohmann, Claire Mouradian, Silvia Serrano, Julien Thorez (eds.), Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era. London; New York: IB Tauris, 2014, 399 pp.
  
  
• Guzel Yusupova. Look the World in the Face: A Review of Stephanie Cronin (ed.), Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress. London; New York: Routledge, 2014, 288 pp.
  
  
• Anna Cieślewska. The Emotional World of Islam: A Review of Svetlana Peshkova, Women, Islam, and Identity, Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014, 352 pp.
  
  
• Alfrid Bustanov. Islam on the Territory of the Former Soviet Empire: A Review of Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Christian Noack (eds.), Allah’s Kolkhozes: Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s — 2000s). Berlin: Klaus Schwartz Verlag, 2014, 541 pp., maps, photographs, indices, bibliographies