Soboleva O. Wedding ceremonies of Crimean Tatars in the second part of the XX - beginning of the XXI centuries.

This thesis contains a complex research on wedding ceremony of Crimean Tatars in the second part of XX century - the beginning of XXI century that is based on the investigation of published literature sources and field studies. The rites of wedding cycle, which consists of three main parts - the pre-wedding, the wedding and the post-wedding - are being analysed. Local differences in wedding ceremony between the three subethnic groups of the Crimean Tatars - mountain, south coastal and steppe - are being examined in this thesis. For the first time the classification of the attribute and the role components in the structure of the wedding rite complex has been made enabling investigation of the ancient symbolic system of the ceremony. The scientific retrospection method served as a base for the analysis of the processes of transformation of popular traditions that took place in the second part of the XX century under the influence of modern ethnocultural, social and political factors and migration processes caused by the deportation in 1944, rehabilitation and the return of the Crimean Tatars to the historical motherland at the end of the XX century.