UID:
edocfu_9959233699602883
Format:
1 online resource (346 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8047-7344-0
Content:
This is a comprehensive ethnographic study about the Moso, a matrilineal group in Southwest China, whose unique traditions are bound to change accepted notions of marriage, kinship, the family, and gender relations.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The people and their history -- Political structure and cultural environment of traditional Moso society -- Tisese: the primary pattern of institutionalized sexual union -- Marriage: the secondary pattern of institutionalized sexual union -- Matrilineal descent and matrilineal ideology -- The Moso social organization: the domestic group and the descent group -- Navigating through the web of social relations -- Household life among the Moso -- The unusual Moso gender system -- Religions and rituals among the Moso.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-6199-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804773447
