This book is dedicated to *oberegs*—magical means of protecting an individual and their world from danger. Drawing upon the pan-Slavic tradition, it presents—for the first time—a comprehensive model of the *obereg*, describing its semantics and the specific forms of its manifestation in ritual texts, actions, objects, and ceremonies; it also provides an analysis of the pragmatics of the verbal...

Seriia: Issledovaniia po prikladnoi i neotlozhnoi etnologii. Institut Etnologii i antropologii

Seriia: Issledovaniia po prikladnoi i neotlozhnoi etnologii. Institut Etnologii i antropologii

An ethographic study of the customs and holidays of the Tatars of the Urals and Volga regions.

The book is devoted to the contemporary internal and foreign policy problems of Afghanistan, which has been at war for over 20 years. The deformation of the country's economy, the almost complete stop of industry, the reorientation of agricultural production to drug-containing crops, and trade to smuggling import-export operations are shown. The role of the interethnic factor and Islamic...

Ezhegodnyi biograficheskii spravochnik. Around 1000 biographies of leading elites.