Search Results - Ritsa Sh. Zelnitskaya

The article is devoted to the study of the funeral rite in modern Abkhazian society. For a long time, the ancestors of modern Abkhazians got acquainted with Christianity and Islam, and these world religions have left their mark on the ritual life of Abkhazian society. Despite their influence, it is...

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This article highlights one of the important spiritual culture issues of Kabardians: religious beliefs. E.N. Studenetskaya during the next trip to the Kabardian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1947 covered the key aspects of the people’s life. In the fieldwork’s course, materials were collec...

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The article examines objects from the Russian Ethnographic Museum’s collection, the primary purposes of which are protective. The collection of things with defensive or protective properties dates back to the first museum excursions to the Caucasus and is still going on today. Researchers frequently...

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The article is devoted to one element of the traditional funeral and memorial rituals among the peoples of the Northwest Caucasus (using the example of the Abkhazians and Karachays), associated with rituals and beliefs about the return of the soul of the deceased to his native home. According to pop...

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The publication continues the introduction into scientific circulation of the report on the field ethnographic work in Kabarda by E.N. Studenetskaya. When considering the report fragment, primary attention was paid to the social structure of Kabardian society issue, which was one of its key topics....

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