Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2013. № 10. Part 1. P. 61-65.
CONFLICTS RELATED TO MARRIAGE AND WAYS OF THEIR SOLUTION IN TRADITIONAL OSSETIAN SOCIETY
Daueva Tamara Tamerlanovna
North Ossetia Institute of Classical and Social Researches named after V. I. Abaev
Abstract. The article is devoted to the ethnography of the Ossetians’ traditional marriage ceremonies of the XIX th-XX th centuries. Conflicts that arise in marriage including nuances associated with the payment of dowry, and the procedures of matchmaking are considered by the materials of periodicals, archival documents, published sources, and the author’s field researches. Special place is given to such traditional form of marriage as marriage by the abduction of the girl. Changes in rituals associated with the development of commodity-money relations are mentioned.
Key words and phrases: умыкание, калым, сватовство, адаты, обычное право, осетинские обычаи, abduction, dowry, matchmaking, adats, customary law, Ossetian customs
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