General Editor's Preface -- SECTION ONE: THEORETICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF ETHNICITY -- The Study of Ethnicity: An Overview -- Problems of Ethnicity in Soviet Ethnographic Studies -- On the Typology of Ethnic Communities -- Psychotopology and its Application to Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Professional, and Cross-Cultural Communication -- SECTION TWO: ETHNICITY AS IDENTITY: INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, AND ISOLATED GROUPS -- Endogenous Research and Polyocular Anthropology -- Jívaro Headhunters in a Headless Time -- Opposition as a Component of Ethnic Self-Consciousness -- Ethnicity and the Family in the Soviet Union -- New Developments in Family Life in the Countryside in Belorussia -- Interethnic Families in the National Republics in the Middle Reaches of the Volga -- Trends in Marriages Between Negroes and Whites in Chicago -- Changing Patterns of Ethnic Identity and Prestige in East Africa -- SECTION THREE: CONTACT, ACCULTURATION, AND BOUNDARY MAINTENANCE -- Region, Religion, and Language: Parameters of Identity in the Process of Acculturation -- Contrasting Value Orientation of Peasant Communities and its Persistence into Modernization -- Nigeria's 250 Ethnic Groups: Realities and Assumptions -- The Chinese Community in Canada before 1947 and Some Recent Developments -- The Tuli-Chinese Balk Line: Minimal Group Self-Identity -- Jewish Communities as Cultural Units -- Rājasthān and Rājasthāni: Switching over from Hindī to Rānī -- When Brokers Go Broke: Implications of Role Failure in Cultural Brokerage -- SECTION FOUR: ETHNICITY AND THE FUTURE -- Class and Ethnic Consciousness: The Case of the Mapuche Indians of Chile -- Problems of Identifying Ethnic Processes -- The Peculiarities of Ethnonational Development in the Polyethnic Liberated Countries -- Contemporary Ethnic Processes in Siberia.

Socialism and Ethnic Features of Nations: The Example of the Peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- The Development of Interethnic Relations in the Ukraine -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.