CUSTOM OF AVOIDANCE "UAISHADEN" OF OSSETIANS IN XIX-XXI CENTURIES (BASED ON MATERIALS OF THE ETNOGRAFIPHIC EXPEDITION 2015 IN TURKEY)
The article discusses the custom of avoidance and its preservation in modern culture of north Ossetians, as well as Anatolian Ossetians (descendants of families who moved from Ossetia in the second half of the XIX and after the October 1917 revolution in Turkey). This research is based on the materials of the ethnographic expedition 2015 in Turkey and ethnographic sources of XIX century. Custom of avoidance "uaishadin" is the most important element of wedding and post-wedding communication etiquette. It encompasses normative-behavioral complex that reflects the relationship of young bride with senior family members, mainly men. The author considers the changes of the custom of avoidance in the XIX-XXI centuries. The primary changes, namely the democratization of the custom of avoidance "uaishadin" associated with changes in the structure and form of the family, and also with the changing of cultural and economic environment affecting the everyday household live of families in Ossetia.The analysis of the custom of avoidance in the environment of Anatolian Ossetians allowed to reveal homogeneous changes: in the group of respondents older than 70 years old both in North Ossetia and in the Diaspora of Anatolian Ossetians maintains a prohibition on the pronunciation of personal names of the husband and senior male of the family, as well as a number of other significant prohibitions.