Научный диалог (Jan 2017)
Ideological Justification of Power Relations in Traditional Kabardian Society (16<sup>th</sup>-18<sup>th</sup> Centuries)
Abstract
The problem of ideological legitimacy of princely power and the power relations in traditional Kabardian society is considered. The ideological component is interpreted as a necessary conditions of the politogenesis and the subsequent functioning of the system of power in historical Kabarda of 16th-18th centuries. The importance of addressing this issue is connected with significant potential of anthropologically oriented study of the history of the power component. The formation of new approaches to the study of the underlying political processes and the presentation of the history of power actualized the development of questions about the features and conditions of politogenesis in traditional Kabardian society. A study of the ideological justification of power relations is a prologue to in-depth, comprehensive study of the political culture of historical Kabarda. The paper raises the question about the causality of relations of domination and subordination and the principle of reciprocity between the rulers and their subjects of the corresponding cultural-ideological matrix, governed in turn special shape of the power system of traditional Kabardian society and the basic principles of power that are relevant to this system. The components of the legitimation of the power and the ordering of power relations are analyzed. As a cultural and ideological justification of power relations a complex of legends, family traditions, ideas about the distribution of public functions, etiquette, moral, legal and educational ideas and, with a certain amount of time, religious aspects are considered.
