Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2017. № 11. P. 136-141.
FUNCTIONS OF CLOTHES IN WEDDING CEREMONIES OF THE CHUVASH PEOPLE
Petrov Igor' Georgievich
R. G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract. The article deals with the functions of clothes in the Chuvash wedding ceremonies and the ideas associated with them. The author comes to the conclusion that the traditional Chuvash suite acted as an element of gift exchange between the relatives of the bride and bridegroom, was part of the dowry and bride-money, and was used to show the status of the main characters of the wedding and ceremonial registration of the transition of the bride to a new social and age group. In addition, clothes were used as a protective and producing means or attribute in various magical rites.
Key words and phrases: этнография, народы Урало-Поволжья, чуваши, свадебные обычаи и обряды, традиционная одежда, ритуальная символика, ethnography, peoples of the Ural-Volga region, the Chuvash people, wedding customs and ceremonies, traditional clothes, ritual symbolism
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