Abstract

In this article, the applicant, without claiming to be exhaustive, at the same time, for the first time in research practice, attempted to search for scientific methods regarding the transformation of the traditional culture of the Karakalpak people. The author, using mainly the scientific work and views of the famous scientist Arutyunov S.A., analyzes diachronic and synchronous information links within the traditional culture of the Karakalpak society. The historiographical basis of this research is the works of Soviet and modern Russian and Karakalpak researchers devoted to the history of the Karakalpaks of the XIX and XX centuries. When writing the article, the main method was the method of historicism, which allows to reveal the dynamics of the transformation of the traditional culture of the Karakalpak society, and special emphasis was placed on the analysis of scientific literature and observations of field materials during an ethnographic expedition in Karakalpakstan. It is based on the analysis of the available literature and field data on this problem that the author comprehensively reveals the historical events that took place in the Karakalpakstan cultural space.