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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2022.85.46.001
CONCUBINAGE IN THE OSSETIANS FAMILY RELATIONS AT THE END OF THE 18TH-19TH CENTURIES
Daueva, Tamara T.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2022. IIS 46 (85).
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the study of the practice of bigamy in the traditional model of family
organization in Ossetia. The study covers the period from the middle of the 18th to the 19th century.
An analysis of the specifics of the introduction of Russian law innovations into the family space
allows us to imagine the process of transition from the traditional norms of the customary legal
culture of Ossetians and the formation of a new legal consciousness. This study proposes a structural
and functional analysis of the institution of second wives (nomylus) in the Ossetian society. The aim
of the study is to analyze the family and marriage law of Ossetians, some aspects of which reveal
the social origin of nomylus women, their position in the family, and inheritance rights. For the first
time, the institution of bigamy becomes the object of research, as well as the consequences that took
place after administrative measures against bigamy. At the same time, the process of eradicating
the institution of nomylus is analyzed on the example of several cases from family practice. The
activities of the Russian administration is considered, which, in the context of the implementation
of the provisions of the peasant reform of 1861, recognized concubinage as illegal and freed wivesnomylus
and their children as representatives of the not free estate, recognizing them as freedmen.
The features of marriages and divorce proceedings with a second wife (nomylus) are revealed. The
specific factors of differentiation of the status of the nomylus wife and the main wife are determined,
including economic, property, etc. The economic side of the conclusion of concubinage is studied. The
results of the work are important for understanding the transformational processes that affected all
spheres of Ossetian society in the 19th century and reflected, among other things, in the ways and
forms of regulation of marriage and family relations.
Keywords: Ossetians, patriarchal family, customary law, adat, kalym, concubinage
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