FORUM FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURE
From the Editorial Board
Catherine Wanner, Sonja Luehrmann, Igor Mikeshin, Anastasia Mitrofanova, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Andrey Moroz, Vlad Naumescu, Robert A. Orsi, Roman Poplavsky, Leonard Norman Primiano, Danila Rygovsky, Detelina Tocheva, Andrei Tiukhtiaev, Agnieszka Halemba, Olga Khristoforova, Yulia Shevarenkova
Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion: Theories, Methods and Field Experiences
Jeanne Kormina, Alexander Panchenko, and Sergei Shtyrkov
Local Development in Practice: Case Study — Mahalla Committees in Their Interaction with a Foreign NGO in the Vakhsh Valley in Tajikistan
Anna Cieślewska
Spatiality and Dysfunctionality of Infrastructure in the Context of Modern Russian Funeral Rites
Sergei Mokhov
A Review of Heather Jacobson, Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016, 218 pp.
Natalia Conroy
A Review of M. S. Druskin, Сollected Works: in 7 vols., vol. 5: Russkaya revolutsionnaya pesnya [The Russian Revolutionary Song], comp., intr. article, materials, publ. of letters and documents, and comm. by S. V. Podrezova. St Petersburg: Kompozitor, 2012, 800 pp.
Rustam Fakhretdinov
A Review of Elliott Oring, Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016, 268 pp.
Anastasiya Astapova
A Review of M. V. Stanyukovich (comp., ed.), Betel, kava, kola, chat: Zhevatelnye stimulyatory v rituale i mifologii narodov mira [Betel, Kava, Cola, Chat: Chewing Stimulants in Ritual and Mythology], ed. by A. K. Kasatkina. St Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Press, 2015, 347 pp.
Valeria Kolosova
