Universal History Annotation << Back INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF DANCE AND MUSIC CIRCASSIAN (ADYGHE) AS A SOCIOCULTURAL CODE. SEMANTICS AND SYMBOLICS A.V. Gucheva, B.S. Kagazezhev, M.Kh. Batyrova The article is devoted to the semantic and symbolic analysis of dance and music Circassians (Adyghe) as a sign system and socio-cultural code of the ritual and ethnographic complex of the. Ritual dance and music are viewed in a broad cultural context as an important part of the ethnographic description of the ritual and as a material of the oral paleocreographic and musical tradition of the Circassians (Adyghe). The provisions and conclusions of the article create the basis for research into the problem of semantics and symbolism, as well as the phenomenon of sacred paleocreography and music of the Circassians (Adyghe). Keywords: dance, music, Circassian (Adyghe), God-man, Mezytkh’e, rite «Choice of Thamada», «Rite of throwing arrows», semantics, symbolism, sociocultural code. DOI: 10.25791/vseist.03.2020.1105 Pp. 14-18.