Adyghe social terminology based on the materials of the ethnographic expedition of E.N. Studenetskaya to the Kabardian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1947)

The publication continues the introduction into scientific circulation of the report on the field ethnographic work in Kabarda by E.N. Studenetskaya. When considering the report fragment, primary attention was paid to the social structure of Kabardian society issue, which was one of its key topics. In his report, the author describes thoroughly the social roles of representatives of all classes, gives information about the rights and duties of the privileged and dependent estates. Significant attention is paid to the forms of capture and the fate of the prisoners, since one of the dependent estates was also formed from them. The field material is oral histories, which in the middle of the XX century continued to be preserved in the memory of old-timers. An important circumstance that influenced the nature and structure of the collected material was that the informants of E.N. Studenetskaya belonged to the descendants of dependent groups of the local population.

The report’s publishers pay the most important attention to native social terminology used in it, since the fixation of the material was complicated by the periodic absence of an interpreter, ignorance of the language by the researcher, as well as the conditions for translating the collected material into printed form, which was carried out by a typist who also does not speak Kabardian. The need to clarify the details related to social terminology is because there is still no complete clarity on the internal social stratification of traditional Kabardian society.

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