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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.80.41.011

THE INTANGIBLE SPIRITUAL HERITAGE OF THE OSSETIANS AS THE BASIS OF CULTURAL TOURISM: RITUAL PRACTICES, THE NART EPIC

Sokaeva, Diana V. , Kaloeva, Zarina Yu.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2021. IIS 41 (80).
Abstract:
The article makes an attempt to determine the principles of selecting objects of intangible
heritage, in particular, the Ossetian people, and to calculate the possible risks of negative results
of the introduction of cultural tourism. The main risk lies in the form of tourism, which involves
active and direct communication of tourists with the bearers of traditional culture in the process
of sending ritual practices. It is necessary to protect the ritual practices of the Ossetians from
the negative consequences of the introduction of cultural tourism, because the theoreticians and
practitioners of ethno-tourism and tourism of various types in general rely on national identity.
In connection with the identified risks, we decided to develop a system of requirements and
recommendations that would contribute to the protection of the ritual practices of the Ossetians
as relevant at the moment and the correct interpretation of the plots, images, motives of the
Nartov epic of the Ossetians, which at the moment does not exist in an active form. The aim
of the undertaken research is to show the folklorist»s vision of the problem, the realization that
the ritual practices and the Nart epic of the Ossetians are an important identification feature of
the people that requires special treatment. The objectives of the programs for the introduction of
cultural tourism are: optimization of the consumption of tourist resources and security problems;
creation of the concept of ethno-tourism; development of mechanisms with the help of which
there will be an increase in ethnic and ethnocultural components in cognitive, religious, cultural,
ecological and other types of Russian tourism. The study used methods of observation, analysis
and monitoring of the current state of the problem in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. And
today RNO-Alania has a significant number of ethno-cultural sites that may be interesting for
tourists, but the involvement of folklorists in an expanded and qualified format as consultants
will undoubtedly increase the cognitive potential of existing and new sites. The source base of the
research is the recorded ritual practices of the Ossetians and the texts of the Nartov epic of the
Ossetians. The novelty of this study is that attention from external, as a rule, stylized objects of
cultural tourism switches to internal processes of preserving tradition and, based on this factor,
the possibilities of its presentation.
Keywords: intangible heritage, ritual practice, Nart epic of Ossetians, cultural tourism, presentation, recommendation, identification, safety, cultural tourism, ethno-tourism
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