CONCEPT "BREAD" IN THE TRADITIONAL KUBAN WEDDING CEREMONY (ON THE MATERIAL OF STANITSA CHERNOERKOVSKAYA)
The article deals with the terminology and ritual use of the bread in the Kuban wedding ceremony on the background of the kindred traditions. The comparison allows to fi nd out the starting basis of Ukrainian ritual, the elements borrowed from the other cultural traditions and to discover new elements in the Kuban ritual. The investigation is based on the narrations of the informants from the village Chernoerkovskaya of Slavyansk region. The study of the rite on the material of one settlement helps to avoid random sample of objects for analysis and allows to implement the systems principle.