Sh. H. KADYROV. TURKMEN-NAMA. HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ALBUM. Uppsala, Moscow: IFECAS, 2012. 339 p. Sh. H. KADYROV. TURKMEN-NAMA. WHO ARE THE TURKMENS? ED. CORRECTED AND EXPANDED. Uppsala-Moscow: IFECAS, 2014. 453 p. From descriptive ethnography, at least in Russia, there are horns and legs. And the point is not that all the peoples of the world have already been studied and described, and not even that interest in science, and especially in its humanitarian part, is narrowing in our country (this is happening everywhere). All over the world now, scientific research, if it does not bring the immediate and maximum benefit, does not have serious funding and is on the verge of extinction. Many authors write that science has already discovered everything and it is necessary to "bring the product" to the "end user". It seems that a paradigm shift is taking place now (T. Kuhn), but it is not related to the correlation of any theories, but to the change in the place of science in the modern world. Simply put, science ceases to be a fashionable occupation. page 169 Fortunately, the author of the peer-reviewed book went against this trend. Firstly, because I decided to write and publish an "unpopular" work that cannot bring immediate dividends. Secondly, because I wanted to combine dry theoretical research and a lively (still lively!)world under one cover. ethnographic material. Systematic study of the history, culture, and way of life of Turkmens has been conducted for more than a century. During this time, many ethnographic works were published, based on painstaking long-term field research. For decades, serious research has been carried out in the field of anthropology and ethnogenesis of the ancestors of modern Turkmens1. It remained only to wait for the generalization of this rich heritage of work. It was published in 2012. "Turkmen-nama "("The Book of Turkmens") is the first voluminous historical and ethnographic work, in which its author, relying on the vast scien ... Читать далее