PROBLEMS OF LIFE QUALITY ASSESSMENT AT POPULATION LEVEL by Ya. A. Leshchenko

“…The specific category character «life quality» according to the big ethnological societies has been considered and the critical analysis of the available approaches to its study has been given in this work. …”
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Caucasia from the Perspective of the French Travelers by Erdoğan UYGUR

“…The customs and traditions, languages, beliefs of the local people were observed from the Western cultural point of view; sometimes the traces of ethnological similarities between Western people and the local people were searched for and various inferences and hypothesizes were put forward based on references to the pre-historic times. …”
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The image of Tatarstan in cultural policy and regional development strategies (2013–2019) by Guzel I. Makarova

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Coarse motley shirts with the elements of discontinuous supplementary-weft weaving among the peoples of the Volga-Urals region (on the history of formation of the traditions) by E.E. Nechvaloda

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Is Ancestor veneration the most universal of all world religions? A critique of modernist cosmological bias by Thomas Reuter

“…Research by anthropologists engaged with the Comparative Austronesia Project (Australian National University) has amassed an enormous data set for ethnological comparison between the religions of Austronesian-speaking societies, a language group to which nearly all Indonesian societies also belong. …”
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Small Molded Vessels for Incense from Burials of Southern Subural Nomads in the 4th – 2nd Centuries BC by Vitaliy K. Fedorov

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Why are there no Neolithic mega-sites in the Anatolian Euphrates basin? A socio-archaeological approach to the marital structure of early farming societies by Cédric BODET

“…It seems necessary to adopt a sociological point of view, necessarily backed by the appropriate ethnological analyses. From this perspective, it must be acknowledged, before anything else, that the adoption of farming modifies deeply, in the long term, the internal structure of hunter-gatherer societies: the lineage becomes the relevant social unit, while marital alliances are more likely to be contracted with the outside world than within the kinship group. …”
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Review of the album-catalogue: Vladimir Popov. Calligraphy. Author-compiler L.N. Donina (Kazan, 2019. 400 p.) by Guzel I. Makarova

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The Ethnocultural Potential of Voice Forms and Its Discourse Actualization by Lyubov A Kozlova

“…The aim of the article is the analysis of the category of voice in the ethnocultural aspect and elucidation of the ethnological factors which determine the choice of voice forms in various types of discourse. …”
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Paysage, architecture rurale, territoire : de la prise de conscience patrimoniale à la protection by Arlette Auduc

“…Nonetheless some examples of rural architecture have been given protection (‘classement’ or, more frequently, ‘inscription’), examples often selected for their ethnological values, under the influence of Georges-Henri-Rivière. …”
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High-relief coinage in the Kazan-Tatar jewelry tradition: historical and technical analysis by Larisa N. Donina

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Tatar embroidery: on the historiography of the question by Dina F. Gatina-Shafikova

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Traditional knowledge of animal-derived medicines used by Gelao community in Northern Guizhou, China by Xiaoqi Liu, Shuo Li, Yi Feng, Xingxing Chen, Yuhan Ma, Hai Xiao, Yongxia Zhao, Sha Liu, Guishen Zheng, Xiujuan Yang, Faming Wu, Jian Xie

“…We employed quantitative ethnological and ecological assessment techniques to evaluate the significance of these practices. …”
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From fisher tales to scientific evidence: revealing the significance of estuarine and mangrove habitats as nursery grounds for juveniles of the largest Atlantic Ocean snapper by Fábio Renan Miranda da Silva, Eurico Mesquita Noleto Filho, Maria Luiza Gallina, Friedrich Wolfgang Keppeler, Friedrich Wolfgang Keppeler, Miguel Loiola, Tommaso Giarrizzo, Tommaso Giarrizzo, José Amorim Reis-Filho, José Amorim Reis-Filho, José Amorim Reis-Filho

“…We used a combination of empirical evidence from underwater surveys by using small-action cameras and an ethnological perspective based on fishers’ perceptions who are cubera-snapper fishing specialists to have a comprehensive understanding of the species and habitat use during its early life stages. …”
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Fur Processing in Raižiai in the 20th Century: Craft and Image by Jonas Mardosa

“…The article examines the fur processing craft in Raižiai and its surroundings on the basis of archival data and ethnological literature. The forms of fur processing craft transfer between gene­ rations and their change over time are examined. …”
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Sarmatian Graves with Hiding-Holes in the Bottom of Pits in Kurgan Cemeteries of the Lower Volga Region by Boris A. Raev

“…The interpretation of materials also required the use of the classical method of extensive parallels including ethnological examples. Results. Among the burials with hiding-holes in the bottom of the pits, the majority were burials of women. …”
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S’attacher/être attaché au biou by Flavie Ailhaud, Noël Barbe

“…Under the close collaboration and supervision of the regional cultural Affairs management team of what was then called the Franche Comté, there followed an ethnological investigation, the making of a film, an active research was set up to build a solid and significant candidateship, an exhibition was organized, a companionship was created and a number of friendly relationships were activated. …”
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Zabawy młodzieży akademickiej na przykładzie miasta Opola (rekonesans badawczy) by Tomasz Michalewski

“…The very work was based on the ethnological field studies, press reports and a participant observation. …”
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Saugumo jausmo konstravimas neformalioje jaunimo subkultūroje by Reda Šatūnienė

“…Constructing ‘sense of security’ within non-formal youth subculture Reda Šatūnienė Summary There still are no empirical ethnological or anthropological studies on the ‘sense of security’ construction in non-formal subcultural youth groups in Lithuania. …”
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Fourth Dimension by Door, Angie

“…Of course all of the Bronzes were soon repatriated home with thousands of other objects, leaving behind an empty Ethnological Museum in the middle of Berlin. Once a People’s Palace, now a conglomerate of private-turned-public Wunderkammers, the recently completed Humboldt Forum building was the result of hundreds of millions of federal, city, and non-profit Euros. …”
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