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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Information Current Archive Rules for authors Contacts	V.YA. IKSKUL – WRITER AND ETHNOGRAPHER Morgoeva, Larisa B. Kavkaz Forum. 2020. Issue 3. Abstract: The article is devoted to the works of V. Ya. Ikskul, and analysis of their ethnographic component. The degree of authenticity of the rituals, customs, traditions and norms of everyday life and etiquette of the Ossetians described by V. Ya.Ikskul enhances the ethnographic relevance outshaowing their artistic value. Descriptions of customs are undertaken to get insight into their meaning and internal semantics, and therefore they are presented in colorful artistic design. The purpose of the research was not only to extract cultural and ethnographic facts from literary texts, but also to give them an appropriate assessment. The analysis of the descriptions of customs and rites extracted from the texts in comparison with recognized ethnographic works has shown their exact correspondence and similarity. In addition, the studied descriptions differ in some completeness and in many ways detailed sequence, which allows to recreate the reconstruction of ancient customs. For greater accuracy and efficiency, the article builds a logical sequence of the customs under discussions: from the structure of housing and behavioral etiquette to ancient and archaic customs. A special place, both in the author’s works and in the article, is occupied by ethnographic material related to the beliefs and spiritual culture of the Ossetians: the system of religious values, the sequence of rituals, the interpretation of their semantic load and special significance in the life of the mountain people. An important advantage of the considered ethnographic blocks in the texts Of V. Ya. Ikskul is the time of their writing and publication, as well as their reliability, associated with personal observations during visits to Ossetia and personal acquaintance with folk storytellers of epic tales. The result of the research was the conclusion about the serious significance of the works of V. Ya. Ikskul and the possibility of recognizing them as an ethnographic source. Keywords: Ethnography of the Ossetians, a ceremony, an ancient custom, mountain etiquette, V. Ya. Ikskul, Tbau-Wasilla + References 1. Vilenchik, Ju. Posleslovie [Afterword]. Kavkazskie povesti [Caucasian stories]. Chinvali, 1966, pp. 277‒282. 2. Ikskul’, V.Ya. Bukinisticheskie knigi [second-Hand books] [Web-site]. URL:http://www.alib.ru/findp.php4?author=%C8%EA%F1%EA%F3%EB%FC 3. Ikskul’, V.Ya. Kavkazskie nabroski [Caucasian sketches]. Translated By M. Kadish. Berlin, Izdatel’stvo G.A. Gutnova, 1922. 52 p. 4. Dadianova, T.V. Pamjat’, a ne bespamjatstvo [Memory, not oblivion]. 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