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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.81.42.007
POWER GAMES IN THE MEN’S SUBCULTURE OF THE TRADITIONAL OSSETIAN SOCIETY
Bagaev, Alan B.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2021. IIS 42 (81).
Abstract:
The ideological attitudes characteristic of the men’s subculture are important elements in the
structure of traditional society. Due to the dominant position of men in a traditional society, their
value system exerted great influence on the entire society. Men’s values and norms of behavior
characteristic of a traditional society in a transformed form exist in the modern society as well.
As a result, a comprehensive study of the men’s subculture of the past is necessary for an objective
understanding of the ways of development and identification of hidden trends in the evolution
of modern society. To a large extent, the men’s subculture is reflected in traditional games,
amusements and entertainment that existed among the men’s population of each ethnic group.
This article examines traditional power games as one of the aspects of the men’s subculture based
on the Ossetian material. The scientific novelty is determined by the fact that this work is the
first comprehensive study of men’s power games among the Ossetians. Ethnographic material,
folklore texts and data of the Ossetian language served as the sources for the development of
the problem. In the course of the research, the Ossetians in the past were considered games and
competitions, which required from the participants significant physical activity, muscle strength
and fortitude. Variants of some of the games and competitions under consideration have been
established and their division into individual, pair and group ones. The place and role of power
games and competitions in the men’s subculture of Ossetians has been determined. Stereotypes
of men’s behavior during various power competitions are considered. The influence of power
games on strengthening men’s collective identity in the traditional society has been established.
The presence of a close connection between men’s power games and magic-ritual ceremonies in
the traditional Ossetian society was revealed.
Keywords: men’s power games, men’s subculture of the Ossetians, traditional society, competitions, Ossetian folk games
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