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Antropologicheskij forum, 2014, no. 20

Contents

 

Forum: Ten Years and Twenty Numbers On

Levon Abrahamian, Yuri Berezkin, Vladimir Bogdanov, Konstantin Bogdanov, Catriona Kelly, Jeanne Kormina, Ekaterina Melnikova, Sergey Neklyudov, Alexander Panchenko, Madeleine Reeves, Sergey Sokolovsky, Joachim Otto Habeck, Nicholas Harney, Florian Stammler, Mark Edele, Debra McDougall

From the Editorial Board

Albert Baiburin

 

Articles

Mirrors and Reflections, or Once More on the Situation of Russian Anthropology

Sergei Sokolovsky

Different Models of Political Development in the Pre-State Epoch and Their Study Approaches

Yuri Berezkin

Our Life is What We Eat: Low-Fat Soup and Weak Tea Reflected in Language

Elena Berezovich, Ksenia Osipova

The Tradition of “Yakutalstvo” as the Delimitation of So-Called Social Immunity in the Kaluga Countryside and “Anti-Yakutalstvo” from the 1930s until the Beginning of the 1960s

Igor Kometchikov

 

Reviews

A Review of Vera Tolz, “Sobstvennyy Vostok Rossii”: Politika identichnosti i vostokovedenie v pozdneimperskiy i rannesovetskiy period  [Russia’s Own East: Identity Policy and Oriental Studies in the Late Empire and Early Soviet Period]. Moscow: NLO, 2013, 332 pp.

Sergei Abashin

A Review of Mary Douglas, A Very Personal Method. Anthropological Writings Drawn from Life. Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2013, 318 pp.

Yuri Berezkin

A Review of Kevin K. Birth, Objects of Time. How Things Shape Temporality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 222 pp. (Culture, Mind, and Society).

Arkady Bliumbaum

A Review of I. M. Kaspe (ed.), Status dokumenta: Okonchatelnaya bumazhka ili otchuzhdennoe svidetelstvo? [The Status of the Document: The Final Piece of Paper or Alienated Evidence?]: A Collection of Articles. Moscow: NLO, 2013, 408 pp.

Dmitry Kalugin

A Review of Traditsionnaya kultura Ulyanovskogo Prisurya: Etnodialektnyy slovar [Traditional Culture of the Sura River Area in Ulianovsk Region: An Ethnodialectal Dictionary]: In 2 vols. Moscow: Indrik, 2012, 656 pp.

Elena Levkievskaya

A Review of Olga Malinova-Tziafeta, Iz goroda na dachu: Sotsiokulturnye faktory osvoeniya dachnogo prostranstva vokrug Peterburga (1860–1914) [From the City to the Dacha: Social and Cultural Factors of Appropriation of Summer Space around St Petersburg in 1860–1914)]. St Petersburg: European University at St Petersburg Press, 2013, 336 pp.

Stephen Lovell

A Review of Laura J. Olson, Svetlana Adonyeva, The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013, 368 pp.

Andrei Moroz

A Review of Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett, Google and the Culture of Search. New York: Routledge, 2013, 240 pр.

Ilia Utekhin

A Review of D. I. Antonov, O. B. Khristoforova, In Umbra: Demonologiya kak semioticheskaya sistema: Almanakh [In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System: A Literary Miscellany]. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2012, vol. 1, 545 pp.

Svetlana Adonyeva

A Review of D. I. Antonov, O. B. Khristoforova, In Umbra: Demonologiya kak semioticheskaya sistema: Almanakh [In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System: A Literary Miscellany]. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2012, vol. 1, 545 pp.

Igor Morozov

 

Summaries and keywords

Antropologicheskij forum, no. 20