Notes bibliogr. Index.

The Distinctiveness of the Contemporary World -- The Object and the Subject-Matter of Ethnography / Yu-Brohmy -- The Place of ethnos Theory in Soviet Anthropology / Dragadge, T. -- Ethnic Sociology of Present-day life / Drobizheva, L. -- The Conceptual Reappearance of Peasantry in Anglo-saxon Social Science / Shanin, T. -- Marxism, Anthropology, History -- The Emergence of Marxism in anthropology in France / Godelier, M. -- Historicism in Soviet etnographic science / Potrovagaverkieva, Yu. -- The Theory of Socio-economic Formations and World History / Semenov, Yu. I. -- A Russian Marxist philosophy of history / Gelner, E. -- Anthropology and Religion -- The Study of Religions in Soviet Ethnographic Science / Basilov, V. -- Theories of North Asian Shamanism / Humphrey, C. -- Anthropology and Psychology -- Anthropology and the psychological disciplines / Fortes, M. -- Ethnography and psychology / Kon, I.S. -- Concepts and Methods -- Ethnography and Linguistics / Arutyonov, S. -- Ethnography and Demography / Kozlov, U.I. -- Structure and Structuralism / Pouillon, J. -- The Distinctions of the Primitive -- Ethnographic Reconstruction of the History of Primitive Society / Pershits, A.I. -- Hunters and Gatherers Today and Reconstruction of the Past / Woodburn, J. -- Thought and Writing / Goody, J. -- The Origins of the State among the Nomads of Asia / Krader, L.