Monografiya yavlyaetsya pervym spetsial"nym issledovaniem traditsionnoy kul"tury povedeniya i etiketa nogaytsev v XIX – nach. KhKhv. Na osnove polevogo etnograficheskogo materiala i spetsial"noy literatury po teme issleduyutsya traditsionnye normy kul"tury povedeniya i etiket nogaytsev v semeynom i obshchestvennom bytu, provodyatsya shirokie kul"turno-istoricheskie paralleli mezhdu nogaytsami i tyurkoyazychnymi narodami Rossii, Sredney Azii i Kazakhstana, dagestanskimi i severokavkazskimi narodami. Kniga rasschitana na etnologov, istorikov, kul"turologov i shirokiy krug chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya istoriey i kul"turoy nogaytsev.