V dannoy monografii issleduyutsya relikty rannikh form religii i drevnie obryady odnoy iz etnicheskikh grupp avartsev – andalal"tsev.Izuchenie narodnykh verovaniy pozvolyaet znakomit"sya s istoricheskoy deystvitel"nost"yu dalekogo proshlogo, s drevnimi formami khozyaystva i byta.Poetomu narodnye verovaniya i obryady avartsev-andalal"tsev, kak i drugikh narodov mira, yavlyayutsya vazhnym istochnikom po istorii ikh samobytnoy kul"tury. Oni osveshchayut sushchestvovavshie v proshlom kul"turnye svyazi andalal"tsev s sosedyami, chto daet material dlya issledovaniya etnogeneza i etnicheskoy istorii ne tol"ko avartsev, no i drugikh narodov Dagestana. Aktual"nost" dannogo issledovaniya ostro proyavlyaetsya v poslednie desyatiletiya, v usloviyakh postroeniya novogo demokraticheskogo i pravovogo rossiyskogo gosudarstva, a takzhe v svyazi s rostom natsional"nogo samosoznaniya i natsional"noy gordosti, kogda nablyudaetsya povyshenie interesa k genezisu i etnicheskoy istorii naroda, ego istoricheskomu proshlomu i nastoyashchemu, osobennostyam ego kul"tury i byta.