2026. Issue 1 (31)

  MUSEUM STUDIES 
 

Golovnev A. The Gottorp Globe and Royal Ethnography

6

Muchaeva I. The Contribution of Members of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society to the Formation of Museum Collections on the Ethnography of the Kalmyks

26

Kovaleva N. Toi moko ― Sacred Maori Heads

38

Starostina O. A Toy of the Peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan in the Collection of the Russian Ethnographic Museum

59

Ibrayeva А., Abdukamalova Е., Zhunusov К. The Cultural Code of the Kazakh Steppe Civilization: Some Results of a Research Project Conducted in a Museum Setting

75
  CUSTOMS AND RITUALS
 

Baiburin A. Calendar Age in Russian Tradition

85

Gubanov I. The Structure of the Pre-Christian Temple and the Old Norse Cult in Iceland

100

Nofal F. “Let His Will Permit Me…”: The Druze Shrines of Southern Syria

110

Ulanov M. Sacred Shambhala in the North: Religio-Political Reconfi guration of the Image of Russia in Kalmyk Buddhist Thought

123

Slavko M. Song Creativity of Role-Playing Movement Participants in Russia as a Historical Source (1990–2024)

135

Dobronravin N. Textiles, Beads, Manillas: “Mouth-Opening” and Gift Exchange on the Roads (Southeastern Africa, 16th–17th centuries)

150
  ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY  

Mezentseva A., Rostovtseva V., Irgit Cn., Korotkova A., Butovskaya M. The Other-Race Effect in Physical Strength Recognition from the Face: A Study among Russians and Tuvans

164

Zotova A. Review of Mammoth Tusk Beads from the Upper Paleolithic Sites in the Central Russian Plain

178
  VARIA  
Krasnodembskaya N. , Soboleva E. Russian expedition to Assam and Sudan in 1911–1913 198