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DOI: 10.46698/p6963-5917-1795-m RITUAL ACTIONS IN THE HUNTING SUBCULTURE OF THE OSSETIANS
Bagaev, Alan B.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 38 (77).
Abstract:
Worldview attitudes practiced and transmitted by male communities to a significant extent affect the socialization of the individual, and, consequently, the development of the society. As a result, a comprehensive study of male subcultures is highly relevant. A subculture is always based on one or more previous subcultures that have changed under the influence of various factors. For this reason, to understand the ways of further development of modern society, it is important to study the previously existing subcultures. One of the basic elements of the subcultures of the past were ritual acts. Ritual actions had a pronounced external design and deep internal meaning. This work is aimed at the study of ritual actions and forms of the ritual behavior in the hunting subculture in the traditional Ossetian society. The subculture in question belongs to male professional subcultures. The influence of the values transmitted by it can be traced both in the spiritual and in the material culture of the Ossetian ethnos. The scientific novelty is determined by the fact that this work is the first comprehensive study of ritual actions in the Ossetian hunting subculture. Ethnographic material, folklore texts and data of the Ossetian language served as the sources for the development of the problem posed. In the study of the problem posed, the ritual and ceremonial forms of behavior of Ossetian hunters in different situations were considered. The features of the ritual behavior of the hunter guarding the camp while his comrades were hunting have been established. Ritual actions associated with a temporary hunting dwelling have been determined. The features of ritual behavior and the rite performed after a successful hunt are revealed. The ritual actions and rituals that were carried out by hunters in the settlement after hunting are highlighted. A ritual used by Ossetian hunters to remove the evil eye is described. This problem requires further in-depth research.
Keywords: ritual actions, Ossetian hunter, Afsati, prayer, hunting staff
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