Contents (in Russian) … 3
Publishers and editorial board … 6
Editor’s note
ASTAFYEVA O.N. From discussion to scholarly publication … 9
Classical Heritage
HERSKOVITS M.J. The Significance of the Study of Acculturation for Anthropology (trans. V.G. Nikolayev) … 13
GLUCKMAN M. The Utility of the Equilibrium Model in the Study of Social Change (trans. V.G. Nikolayev) … 18
Theory and Methodology
OGURTSOV A.P. (Moscow) Methodology of science and its anthropological resource (article 1) … 45
ORLOVA E.A. (Moscow) Anthropological grounds of the scientific cognition … 66
YUDIN B.G. (Moscow) Human being as a testee: anthropology of bio-medicinal study … 84
The world of culture
SUCHLAND J. (USA) Is there a postsocialist critique? (beginning) (trans. M.V. Tlostanova) … 97
TLOSTANOVA M.V. (Moscow) Transcultural and transmodern aesthetics/aesthesis and emancipation of knowledge and of being (part 2) … 109
Forum
Individual and his/her identity
REZNIK Yu.M. (Moscow) Alternativity as a way of individual existence … 122
Ethnicity and culture
MIRONOV V.V. (Moscow) Transformation of culture: hazards for the dialogue … 144
RYBAKOV S.Ye. (Moscow) On methodology for the study of ethnic phenomena … 153
MOMDZHAN К.Kh. (Moscow) Anthropological aspect of Russian identity … 165
NAZARCHUK A.V. (Moscow) Ethnic networks in the global society … 171
Individual and creativity
MEN M.A. (Ivanovo) Leadership as a personal phenomenon … 181
Language and intercultural communication
McGREGOR Ch. (USA) Creating a best-seller – adventures with a dictionary (transl. A.A. Ryvlina) … 192
YEFIMOV O.I. (Cheboksary) Communicative competence as a condition of civil society functioning at the present stage … 210
Art and life
TROY M. (Sweden) “Fishy” Prose … 217
Reports
Philosophy and cultural studies
LATINA S.V. (Komsomolsk-on-Amur) The genealogy and contemporary development of gender problematic in Western and Russian humanities … 225
MOROZOVA V.S. (Chita) The logic of comparative philosophy in the context of regional culture study in contemporary Russian and Chinese methodology … 231
SHUMAKOV V.A. (Chelyabinsk) Realization of the researcher’s personal resources in the creative scholarly cognition … 239
Economics and sociology
YEGOROV V.N., MINEYEV V.А. (Ivanovo) The parameters of the enterprise market liquidity: a functional aspect … 244
Politics and law
ALEXANDROV V.B., GROMOVA S.V. (Saint-Petersburg) The main categories in the ideology of Russian conservatism … 249
RAZUVAYEV N.V. (Saint-Petersburg) Antiquity and the ancient East as alternatives of socio-cultural evolution … 255
History and ethnology
DEMIDOV S.V., GLUBOKOVA N.G. (Ryazan) Austrian Anschluss in Anglo-Italian relations (1937–1938) … 261
SHAKUROVA A.V. (Nizhny Novgorod) Ethnic identity in behavioral aspect … 270
Philology and art history
MAKAROVA D.N. (Moscow) Image and representation: differentiating the concepts … 276
MILOVSKAYA N.D. (Ivanovo) Attracting attention to the communicative failures in German everyday jokes … 280
POLYAKOVA Ye.A. (Ivanovo) Old Germanic mythological spatial concepts in Old English poetic language and text … 286
SAMSONOVA M.A. (Ulyanovsk) Artistic peculiarities of M. Bulgakov’s biographical works (based on the 1920s material) … 292
FEDOSEYEVA Yu.A. (Ivanovo) Cosmology of love in I. Bunin’s and N. Smirnov’s prose … 297
Congratulations on the jubilee!
REZNIK Yu.M. (Moscow) An Individual and her Style (on P.F. Kravchuk jubilee) … 302
Professional credo
REZNIK Yu.M., KULTYGIN V.P. (Moscow) What was he dreaming about (Yu.M. Reznik’s interview with professor V.P. Kultygin, Fall 1999) … 306
REZNIK Yu.M., ASTAFYEVA O.N. (Moscow) On the quintessential in life … 318
In memoriam
REZNIK Yu.M. (Moscow) The light of science (a few words on A.A. Gritsanov) … 340
GRITSANOVA A.I. (Minsk) I remember, love and mourn (about Alexander Gritsanov) … 347
ABUSHENKO V.L. (Minsk) In memoriam: Alexander Gritsanov … 350
Review Essays
GUREVICH P.S. (Moscow) New books by our colleagues … 353
GAVROV S.N. (Moscow) New Don Quixote, or Notes on the intellectual life of Personality.Culture.Society … 362
GRANIN Yu.D. (Moscow) Individual in quest of identity: questions and answers … 364
Contents (in English) … 374
Only in our journal: a list of translations of classical texts (1999-2011) … 377