Association of regions, ethnos and faiths: service chelyabinsk turks-nagaybaki (discussions are ongoing). Review of the monograph: "Belorussova S.Yu. Nagaybaki: dynamics of ethnicity. - St. Petersburg: publishing house MAE RAS, 2019. - 424 S." and other p

The review of the book “Nagaybaks: Dynamics of Ethnicity” (SPb, 2019) and other publications of the author and her supervisor is appropriate for broad discussions further, because it considers a good and original work of a young researcher, with only a few (albeit significant) comments. Our common object has become an unusual Turkic, serving ethnic group, connecting the problems of the era, scientific efforts, ethnic groups, religions, and even (which is rarely focused on) the regions of the Russian Federation and the CIS, the Baltics. The author, having structured the presentation in her own way, gave a complete overview of the traditional culture of the Nagaybaks. The helpful moment is the connection of typical ethnic material with biographical data and with new computer (up to “virtual”) information. The “project” method of the author’s analytics has also become very productive.

The shortcomings should be considered the author’s adherence to the immediately given non-controversial scheme, the inexhaustibility of the previously presented literature, some hasty judgments. So, the reviewer’s version about the Nogais turned out to be annoyingly distorted. But the idea of ​​the ethnogenetic unity of the Nogais and Nagaibaks, mistakenly attributed to the reviewer, still gives reason to consider in more detail the ties between the regions of the South of Russia (the North Caucasus, the Lower Volga region and the Southern Urals), as well as analogies in the internal structure of the local ethno-confessional groups: the Nagaibaks and Mozdok Kabardins, the Ossetians and Tats of different religions, as well as the Orthodox - Kalmyks serving as Cossacks both in the south of the Urals, and earlier on the Terek river near the city of Kizlyar.

As a result, the author remained underwritten by the combination of religions and beliefs in the Nagaybak environment, the adaptation process of other ethnic elements (including in connection with the main formerly ritual holiday).

The reviewer is sure, however, that the enthusiastic and detailed work of his younger colleague is an important contribution to science and deserves, with particular reservations, a very high appreciation, paving the way for intensive ethno-regional and inter-regional research in the foreseeable future.

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