Abstract
In the past fifteen or twenty years there has been an intensification of interest in avoidance customs in the Soviet ethnographic literature. These customs are being investigated among the peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia, southern Siberia, and other historical ethnographic regions of our country. A number of articles or sections of monographs have been devoted to them. These works vary in character. Some examine only the system of customs, while others also investigate their genesis and functions. Views on the origin of avoidance also differ. Perhaps the only thing common until recently to all ethnographic publications on this topic was the accepted view of avoidance as an undesirable vestige of the past in the cultures of peoples of formerly backward ethnic borderlands of tsarist Russia now gradually dying out. (1)
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