THE INHERITANCE FEATURES AND THE PROPERTY LAW IN THE TRADITIONAL OSSETIAN FAMILY: GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Modernization processes cover all aspects of modern Ossetian society. The family, this has led to the transformation of gender roles, traditional gender orders and a radical change in the historically established foundations of the Patriarchal form of the family. This determines the relevance of the study of intra-family relations as an important part of the gender system. In the study of the order of inheritance clearly indicated property relations, social structure and hierarchy of society, as comprehensively fixed economic relations. The article is based on the source, literary material, which allows to reconstruct the intra-family legal culture, position and status of women in the Ossetian family. In scientific circulation introduced new archival materials, mostly court cases on the distribution of property, which clearly show how to resolve intra-family conflicts in inheritance. Ethnographic materials give a description of the property aspects of family and marriage relations: the size of the bride price, the content of the dowry, the property rights of the female part of the family. The author investigates the transformation processes in inheritance, legalization of property rights of women during the introduction of Russian legislation in the region. It is concluded that the issues of family division of property, for the most part, were resolved according to the norms of customary law.