Tamara Dragadze is an anthropologist, who studied in the UK before undertaking extensive fieldwork in the Soviet Union.

• Part 1. Central Asia 1. The Wedding Ceremonies of the Turkmen Workers Sh. Annaklychev 2. The Kinship System and Customs Connected with the Ban on Pronouncing the Personal Names of Elder Relatives among the Kazakhs Kh. A. Argynbaev 3. Some Features of the Traditional Wedding Ceremony of the Uzbek-Durmen of the Southern Raions of Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan N.G. Borozna 4. A Statistical Study of Indices of Single-Nationality and Mixed-Nationality Marriages in Dushanbe A.V. Kozenko and L.F. Monogarova 5. Legend: to Believe Or Not To Believe? V.N. Basilov Part 2. European Russia 6. The Weddings of the Rural Population of the Kuban M.S. Shikhareva 7. The Connections Between the Contemporary Town and Village Family D.M. Kogan Part 3. Baltic States 8. The Latvian Peasant Family L.N. Terent’eva Part 4. The Caucasus 9. The Institution of ‘Modzmeoba’ (Adoptive Brotherhood): An Aspect of the History of the Relations Between Mountain and Valley Populations in Georgia Vera Bardavelidze Part 5. Siberia 10. The Family Life of the Dolgans A.A. Popov 11. The Kinship Terminology of the Nganasan as a Historical Source L.A. Fainberg Part 6. Theoretical Issues 12. Towards a Method of Gathering Field Material on Kinship Systems M.V. Kryukov 13. Systems of Kinship Terms and Systems of Social Categories N.M. Girenko

Tamara Dragadze is an anthropologist, who studied in the UK before undertaking extensive fieldwork in the Soviet Union.

• Part 1. Central Asia 1. The Wedding Ceremonies of the Turkmen Workers Sh. Annaklychev 2. The Kinship System and Customs Connected with the Ban on Pronouncing the Personal Names of Elder Relatives among the Kazakhs Kh. A. Argynbaev 3. Some Features of the Traditional Wedding Ceremony of the Uzbek-Durmen of the Southern Raions of Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan N.G. Borozna 4. A Statistical Study of Indices of Single-Nationality and Mixed-Nationality Marriages in Dushanbe A.V. Kozenko and L.F. Monogarova 5. Legend: to Believe Or Not To Believe? V.N. Basilov Part 2. European Russia 6. The Weddings of the Rural Population of the Kuban M.S. Shikhareva 7. The Connections Between the Contemporary Town and Village Family D.M. Kogan Part 3. Baltic States 8. The Latvian Peasant Family L.N. Terent’eva Part 4. The Caucasus 9. The Institution of ‘Modzmeoba’ (Adoptive Brotherhood): An Aspect of the History of the Relations Between Mountain and Valley Populations in Georgia Vera Bardavelidze Part 5. Siberia 10. The Family Life of the Dolgans A.A. Popov 11. The Kinship Terminology of the Nganasan as a Historical Source L.A. Fainberg Part 6. Theoretical Issues 12. Towards a Method of Gathering Field Material on Kinship Systems M.V. Kryukov 13. Systems of Kinship Terms and Systems of Social Categories N.M. Girenko

Tamara Dragadze is an anthropologist, who studied in the UK before undertaking extensive fieldwork in the Soviet Union.

• Part 1. Central Asia 1. The Wedding Ceremonies of the Turkmen Workers Sh. Annaklychev 2. The Kinship System and Customs Connected with the Ban on Pronouncing the Personal Names of Elder Relatives among the Kazakhs Kh. A. Argynbaev 3. Some Features of the Traditional Wedding Ceremony of the Uzbek-Durmen of the Southern Raions of Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan N.G. Borozna 4. A Statistical Study of Indices of Single-Nationality and Mixed-Nationality Marriages in Dushanbe A.V. Kozenko and L.F. Monogarova 5. Legend: to Believe Or Not To Believe? V.N. Basilov Part 2. European Russia 6. The Weddings of the Rural Population of the Kuban M.S. Shikhareva 7. The Connections Between the Contemporary Town and Village Family D.M. Kogan Part 3. Baltic States 8. The Latvian Peasant Family L.N. Terent’eva Part 4. The Caucasus 9. The Institution of ‘Modzmeoba’ (Adoptive Brotherhood): An Aspect of the History of the Relations Between Mountain and Valley Populations in Georgia Vera Bardavelidze Part 5. Siberia 10. The Family Life of the Dolgans A.A. Popov 11. The Kinship Terminology of the Nganasan as a Historical Source L.A. Fainberg Part 6. Theoretical Issues 12. Towards a Method of Gathering Field Material on Kinship Systems M.V. Kryukov 13. Systems of Kinship Terms and Systems of Social Categories N.M. Girenko