The Journal opens with a “Declaration on the Establishment of a New Association of Academic Journals in the Humanities”. The decision to establish the Association was made at the Round Table "Russian Journals in the Humanities in a Changing Academic Landscape," held at the European University on March 25, 2022. The declaration was signed by the editors of more than 20 Russian academic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
In addition, the new issue of the "Anthropological Forum"* contains six articles--material from an academic conference on the anthropology of nutrition — as well as reviews.
Below is the table of contents of the issue:
Research:
Yuri Berezkin. Some early motifs in the folklore of Europe
Natalia Savina. Where the Tygydym horse gallops (on language play, the folklore character, tourist marketing and new rural cultural entrepreneurship)
Gleb Stukalin. "This is a very large tabarruk": ritual objects and a sense of community in the context of the Northern Indian cult of Muslim saints
Svetlana Ryzhakova. Martial art as an element of ritual and dance: chhau dance on the Chhota-Nagpur plateau (East India)
Valeria Kolosova, Olga Belichenko. On the Cultural history of plants: how Galangal 'Alpinia spp.' became Galangal 'Potentilla erecta L. Raeusch.'
Valery Kuchko. How the name of a stone warns of deception: about one motive in mineralogical nomenclature
Conferences
Oksana Fais-Leutskaya, Alexander Novik. The Anthropology of Nutrition as a Meta- and Mega-Discipline: Alimentary Practices, Global Challenges and Image Construction
Reviews
Review of: Susan Helen Ellison. Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. XIII+281 p. (Nikita Shevchenko)
"Hello, brother. It is very difficult to write...," inter alia about the history of concepts: Book review of: Sergey Shtyrkov. Religion, or the Bonds of Piety. [Religiia, ili uzy blagochestiia] Saint Petersburg: European University in St. Petersburg, 2021. 172 p. (from the series Azbuka ponyatii [An ABC of concepts]). (Marianna Shakhnovich)
Book review of: Sergey Shtyrkov. Religion, or the Bonds of Piety. [Religiia, ili uzy blagochestiia] Saint Petersburg: European University in St. Petersburg, 2021. 172 p. (from the series Azbuka ponyatii [An ABC of concepts]). (Vladislav Razdyakonov)
Alexander Panchenko. The Religion of (for) scholars of religion?
Vladislav Razdyakonov. A few words about the world of science and the limitations of language
The full text of the issue is here.
*The "Anthropological Forum" has been published since 2004 by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Anthropology of EUSP.