- PII
- S086954150012353-8-
- DOI
- 10.31857/S086954150012353-8
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / №5
- Pages
- 110-129
- Abstract
In recent years, there are clearly attempts to give an official character to the revitalization movement on the part of activists who consider themselves descendants of the Ubykhs (once the native peoples of the Sochi Black Sea Region). The search for potential applicants for the Ubykh ethnic heritage caused by this process utilizes some stories that have become well-known for the Russian Caucasiology. Such, in particular, is the history of the name Chéren the attention to which was first drawn in the 1930s by L.I. Lavrov who involuntarily endowed her with the “title” of the only Ubykhs remaining in the Black Sea Shapsugia. The tragic events that happened to individual members of the Chéren during the period of collectivization led to the formation of independent agnate branch in neighboring Abkhazia. Based on an analysis of the ethnographic and documentary materials collected by the authors, the article demonstrates how representatives of both lineages lived and continue to live and communicate in the Shapsug and Abkhazian milieu, as well as what strategies for the preservation and positioning of the Ubykh identity they prefer in the present day context.
- Keywords
- Cheren, Khadzhiko, Ubykh, Ubykh descendants, Shapsug, Abkhaz, identity, revitalization
- Date of publication
- 28.12.2020
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Number of purchasers
- 8
- Views
- 575
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