http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/Forumforanthropologyand%20culture/Forumantrhopology%20and%20culture.htm#_CONTENTSForum for Anthropology and Culture is the parallel English-language editionof Antropologicheskii forum  which was founded in 2003 by two of theforemost academic institutions in St Petersburg: the Peter the Great Museumof Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences,and the European University, St Petersburg. The European Humanities ResearchCentre is closely involved in the work of the journal. The current EHRCdirector, Professor Catriona Kelly, is the English-language editor, and amember of the editorial board.The novelty of the journal lies at several levels. First, it is aninter-disciplinary venture, with participation from a range of differentspecialists working in the field of culture, including social and culturalanthropologists, archaeologists, folklorists, cultural and socialhistorians, linguists, and museologists. Second, the contents !
 of thejournal, like the membership of the editorial board, is international incharacter, and the discussion items and selected articles are published inEnglish as well as in Russian. Third, each issue is centred round anexchange of views about topics of current interest to specialists inanthropology, cultural studies, and cultural and social history.The intention is that the journal should facilitate genuine dialogue betweenspecialists working in Russia, and in the Russian field, and those workingelsewhere and in other areas, a process that has till now been hindered bythe language barrier, and by lack of direct contact between the differentscholarly traditions. At the same time, we aim to publish first-class workin the various different areas covered by the journal’s remit, includingstudies based on fieldwork as well as analyses of written and printedsources, discussions of theoretical and methodological issues, andpublications of manuscripts and of texts collected during !
 expeditions. Therange of material included is wide; the defining chara
cteristic of thejournal is a capacity to think beyond national frontiers in terms ofinterpretive principles and methodological strategies, and to address issuessuch as the relationship between nationalism and anthropology and folklorein an informed and critical way.The first issue of Antropologicheskii forum appeared in September 2004,creating a stir of interest and favourable comment. A review inEtnograficheskoe obozrenie describes it as ‘a major event for Russianethnography generally’, and the sign of ‘important and significant, indeedlong-awaited reforms’ in the subject. We plan to publish two issues a year,each of about 400 printed pages. An English-language edition, containingselected material from both issues, will appear annually, subject toavailability of funding. We are grateful to the Humanities Division,University of Oxford, to New College, Oxford, and to the Modern HumanitiesResearch Association for generous financial support, which has made possiblethe appearanc!
 e of the first two English-language editions.The editorial board of Antropologicheskii forum/Forum for Anthropology andCulture is happy to consider submissions of articles and edited documents;such submissions should be written in Russian or English, and should followthe Author Guidelines below.General Editor:Albert Baiburin (European University of St Petersburg/Peter the Great Museumof Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences) Deputy Editor:Sevir Chernetsov (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography(Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences)Editor, English-language section:Catriona Kelly (European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford)AUTHOR GUIDELINESSubmissions are considered for publication on the understanding that theyhave not been published elsewhere, and are not under consideration forpublication elsewhere. They may be sent by e-mail to [log in to unmask](with a copy to [log in to unmask]), or subm!
 itted on a diskette/CDin IBM format, accompanied by two complete print
-outs, identical in everyway to the material on the diskette, to the following postal address:3, Universitetskaya nab.,199034 St.-Petersburg, RussiaMuseum of Anthropology and EthnographyAntropologicheskii forum magazine.(Telephone: +7 812-275 52 56)SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATIONDistribution outside Russia is currently being arranged. In the meantime,please contact [log in to unmask] (with a copy [log in to unmask])CONTENTS No. 1 (2004)Editors’ Foreword1.   ForumCultural Anthropology: The State of the FieldLevon Abrahamian, Adele Barker, Pavel Belkov, Yury Berezkin, KonstantinBogdanov, Sevir Chernetsov, Susan Gal, Bruce Grant, Nicholas Harney, TimIngold, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Catriona Kelly, Georgy Levinton, AleksandrPanchenko, Steve Smith and Sergei Sokolovsky.Afterword by Albert Baiburin2.  ArticlesCatriona Kelly, ‘The School Waltz’: The Everyday Life of the Post-StalinistSoviet ClassroomSvetlana Adonyeva, The Pragmatics of the Chastushka: A Socio-LinguisticStudyPave!
 l Rykin, The Social Group and its Designation in Middle Mongolian: theConcepts irgen and oboq3.  ‘Readings in Honour of D. K. Zelenin’, St Petersburg, November 2004Valeriya Kolosova, Conference ReportKirill Chistov, D. K. Zelenin’s Compendium Russian (East Slavonic)Ethnography: The German and Russian EditionsOlga Belova, ‘We Lived Side by Side’: Ethno-Cultural Stereotypes and LivingTraditionMariya Akhmetova, ‘The Yellow Peril’ as Seen in Contemporary Church CultureEkaterina Melnikova, Eschatological Expectations at the Turn of theNineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The End of the World is [Not] Nigh?Margarita Zhuikova, The Origin of the Expression tuda i doroga! and SlavFolk Beliefs about Two Ways of Dying4. Materials from MuseumsSergei Korsun, The HoldingsRelating to the Tlingits in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, StPetersburg5. ?rchival PublicationsAleksei Zhukov, The Saami, 1200-1700 (Source Materials and Commentary)6. ReviewsMikhail Lurye, The Road with no V!
 erges: T. B. Shchepanskaya. Kultura dorogiv russkoi miforitualnoi trad
itsii XIX-XX vv. [The Journey in Russian Ritualsand Myths of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]Veronika Makarova, The Life of the Orthodox Pastor: A. N. Rozov.Svyashchennik v dukhovnoi zhizni russkoi derevni [The Priest in theSpiritual Life of the Russian Village]Ilya Utekhin, Dacha Reading: S. Lovell. Summerfolk. A History of the Dacha1710-2000Vlada Baranova, Kseniya Viktorova, National Identity on the Shores of theAzov: ?. ??urinkoski. Les Grecs dans le Donbass.Yuri Berezkin, A Ship of Fools: E. A. Okladnikova. Traditsionnye kulturySevernoi Ameriki kak tsivilizatsionnyi fenomen [The Traditional Cultures ofNorth America as a Civilisational Phenomenon].7. Conference ReportCatriona Kelly, Martin McLaughlin, ‘The Future of the Humanities’ (EuropeanHumanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 19-20 March 2004).