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Antropologicheskij forum, 2014, no. 23

Contents

 

Articles

Man as Natural and Supernatural (According to the Language of Mythological Prose)

Victoria Chervaneva

Ways of Traditional Knowledge Representation as Ritual Mythological Genres: On the Example of Altai Tradition

Kira Sycheva

Spiritual Verse in Modern Old-Believer Traditions in the South Vyatka Region

Elena Vorontsova

The ‘Farewell to the Soul’ Ceremony with Ritual Substitution of the Deceased Person (Folk Phenomena of the Russian-Komi-Permyaks’ Transgressive Zone)

Svetlana Koroleva

 

New and Traditional Religious Life in Modern Cities

From the Compiler

Elena Nosenko-Stein

‘Orthodox’ and ‘Soviet’: On the Identity of Soviet Believers, 1940s — Early 1970s

Natalia Shlikhta

Mosque Attendance in Contemporary Religious Life of the Moscow Tatars

Marat Safarov

‘Their’ and ‘Our’ in the Modern Russian City: Jewish Sacred Geography

Elena Nosenko-Stein

The End of Time or the Beginning of the New Cycle? Views of the End of Time in Christianity and Esotericism

Victor Shnirelman

 

Materials from Expeditions and Archives

Evenki Folklore Texts from the Laboratory for Computational Lexicography Archive, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Evgeny Duvakin

A Place of Worship on Lake Nyamboy-to

Yury Kvashnin, Alexander Tkachev

 

Ethnographic Notes

‘Distribution of Pain and Fear’ in Russian Boyish Games in the Mid-20th Century (On the Example of Vytegra and its Adjacent Areas)

Konstantin Loginov 

 

Reviews

A Review of Catherine Wanner (ed.), State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 304 pp.

Sergei Shtyrkov

A Review of Douglas Rogers, The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2009, XVII+338 pp.

James White

A Review of Stephanie Taylor, Karen Littleton, Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, 166 pp.

Anna Zhelnina

A Review of William Mitchell, Ya++. Chelovek, gorod, seti [Me++. The Cyborg Self and the Networked City]. Moscow: Strelka Press, 2012, 328 pp.

Andrey Vozianov

A Review of Yuri Takhteyev, Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012, 261 pp.

Lubava Shatokhina

A Review of A. L. Elfimov (ed., comp.), Antropologicheskiye traditsii: stili, stereotipy, paradigmy [Anthropo logical Traditions: Styles, Stereotypes, Paradigms]: A Collection of Articles. Moscow: NLO, 2012, 208 pp.

Galina Grosheva, Elena Khakhalkina

A Review of Anna Sirina, Evenki i Eveny v sovremennom mire: samosoznanie, prirodopolzovanie, mirovozzrenie [Evenki and Evens in the Modern World: Self-Consciousness, Nature Management and World View]. Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2012, 604 pp.

Andrian Vlakhov

A Review of Olga Khristoforova, Ikota: Mifologicheskiy personazh v lokalnoy traditsii [Ikota: Mythological Characters in Local Traditions]. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2013, 304 pp.

Ekaterina Melnikova

A Review of Olga Khristoforova, Ikota: Mifologicheskiy personazh v lokalnoy traditsii [Ikota: Mythological Characters in Local Traditions]. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities Press, 2013, 304 pp.

Ludmila Vinogradova

 

Summaries and keywords

Antropologicheskij forum, no. 23