Quest for harmony : the Moso traditions of sexual union and family life /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.