
From the Managing Editor
Rustam Fakhretdinov
Forum: Baiburin: pro et contra
From the Editorial Board
Julia Kovyrshina, Jeanne Kormina, Elena Levichkina, Sergei Shtyrkov
Research and Reflection
Ritual in Non-Traditional Culture
Ilya Utekhin
On а Quasi-Dimensive Text of Children’s Folklore (An Essay on Structural and Semantic Stylisation)
Maria Akhmetova, Mikhail Lurie
A Prolegomenon to the Study of the Cultural and Biographical Significance of the Horoscope: An Autoethnography (Not Too Long and Not Too Serious…)
Marina Hakkarainen
A Present from “Arzamas”, or, The Ten Most Important Words for Understanding Culture and How to Find Them
Elena Liarskaya
Studies of Passports and Identity Documents
At the Borders of Memory: The British Passport
Catriona Kelly
Garden Settlement Membership Books as a Hybrid and Liminal Phenomenon, or, The Soviet City-Dweller’s Rural Passport
Alexandra Kasatkina
“To Send Home with a Kind Word”: On Peasants’ Passports in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Dmitry Mukhin
“This Little Cover So Dear to Me”: The Semiotic Status of the Passport Cover and Practices Associated with Its Use in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Stepan Drozdov, Maria Masagutova
Toy Passports: A Preliminary Investigation
Olga Boitsova
“No ID? Then You’re a… Mongrel”: A Dog’s Life in Documents Issued by Russian Kennel Clubs
Natalia Slavgorodskaya
“Boy Wants to Meet Girl for LTR” (A Response to Natalia Slavgorodskaya and the Stud Dogs Ads from “Avito”)
Maria Fox Larsson (Maria Oshukova)
Materials from the Field
Bonjour Distress, or, Sad Stories
Anna Altukhova, Anna Klepikova, Maria Pirogovskaya
Semiotics Goes to the Masses: Notes on Readings of Works by the Moscow-Tartu School among Russian Neo-Pagans
Yulia Shanina
Ethnicity for Yourself and Others: Fieldwork Observations from the Hel Peninsula
Oleksandr Vasiukov
Museum
Inside and Outside: How to Live and Not Die in the Ethnographical Museum
Ekaterina Melnikova
Publications
The Venice Manuscript
Valeria Kolosova, Olga Belichenko
Personalia
AB: An Encomium in Objects
Dmitry Baranov, Evgenia Guliaeva
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
V. D.