The kingdom of women : life, love and death in China's hidden mountains /

In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matriarchal societies on earth, where the wom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Choo, WaiHong (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.
Temas:
Women > China > Yunnan Sheng.
Women > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Matriarchy > China > Yunnan Sheng.
Matriarchy > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Ethnic groups > China > Yunnan Sheng.
Ethnic groups > China > Sichuan Sheng.
Femmes > Chine > Yunnan (Sheng)
Femmes > Chine > Sichuan.
Matriarcat > Chine > Yunnan (Sheng)
Matriarcat > Chine > Sichuan.
Groupes ethniques > Chine > Yunnan (Sheng)
Groupes ethniques > Chine > Sichuan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic groups
Matriarchy
Women
Nakhi
Frau
Matriarchat
Nationale Minderheit
Minderheitenpolitik
Ethnosoziologie
Sozialanthropologie
China > Sichuan Sheng
China > Yunnan Sheng
China > Südwest
Yunnan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Arriving in the kingdom of women
  • Building a Mosuo home
  • Going native
  • Getting to know the Mosuos
  • Becoming the godmother
  • Hunting and eating in bygone times
  • How the Mosuo women rock
  • The men rock too
  • A marriage that is not marriage
  • The matrilineal ties that bind
  • The birth-death room
  • On the knife-edge of extinction.

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