TRANSFORMATION OF FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD PROTECTIVE RITES OF THE CHUVASH IN TSILNINSKY DISTRICT OF ULYANOVSK REGION

Elena Yu. Anisimova, Iraida E. Kantserova

DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2020-4-5-11

Key words

the Chuvash people, transformation, protective rites, traditions, family.

Annotation

The study of family and household rituals as the most important channel for transmitting cultural heritage is traditionally a highly topical issue for the ethnographic science. The article describes in detail the family and household protective rites that continue to exist in the ethnic environment of the Chuvash in Tsilninsky district of Ulyanovsk region. The article is based on long-term field authors research devoted to the study of family and household rites, its transformation in modern socio-economic conditions. Protective rites are examined within the life cycle of a Chuvash family: birth, wedding, funeral. The authors established that many traditional protective family and household rituals have been preserved, but at the same time they have acquired a modern character. Funeral and memorial rites are the most stable in the context under study, and wedding rites are the least stable. The article contains a unique material received from informants concerning the description of modern rituals associated with building a house, leaving the old one and moving to the new one. The study showed that at present, among the Chuvash population of the studied region, family and household rites continue to exist, they are aimed at achieving health, well-being, prosperity, with the goal of getting rid of diseases and misfortunes.

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Information about the authors

Elena Yu. Anisimova – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Ecology, Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov, Russia, Ulyanovsk (aniska73@list.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7824-6308).

Iraida E. Kantserova – Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography and Ecology, Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov, Russia, Ulyanovsk (iraida23@mail.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0034-8547).

For citations

Anisimova E.Yu., Kantserova I.E. TRANSFORMATION OF FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD PROTECTIVE RITES OF THE CHUVASH IN TSILNINSKY DISTRICT OF ULYANOVSK REGION. Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2020, no. 4, pp. 5–11. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2020-4-5-11 (in Russian).

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