Die Brüder Grimm »schauten dem Volk aufs Maul« und notierten getreulich, was die Märchenfrau erzählte. So stellen sich viele die Entstehung der Märchen vor. So war es aber nicht. Die Grimms griffen oft radikal in die Texte ein, glätteten, bauten um und aus.

An ethnographic look, in a non-scholarly book, on the Itelmen people, the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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...

В книге, инициированной Фондом Егора Гайдара, представлены 14 масштабных интервью с политическими деятелями, которые после распада Советского Союза стали первыми руководителями новых независимых государств. Версиями событий, радикально изменивших карту мира и жизнь миллионов людей, делятся Аскар Акаев, Леонид Кравчук, Витаутас Ландсбергис, Станислав Шушкевич, Мирча Снегур, Геннадий Бурбулис,...

This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today's globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern Europe,

The book is the first scholarly attempt to research the ethnography of the Mari people.

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

Academic freedom the institutional autonomy of scientific, research and teaching institutions, and the freedom of individual scholars and researchers to pursue controversial research and publish controversial opinionsùis a cornerstone of any free society.

The thirteen papers in this collection address three aspects of higher education, primarily in Europe but also in the United States. These aspects are competition, collaboration, and complementarity, both on the level of policy and on the practical level