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Quest for harmony : the Moso traditions of sexual union and family life / Chuan-kang Shih.
Penn Museum Library DS731.N39 S55 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shih, Chuan-kang.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naxi (Chinese people)--Sexual behavior.
- Naxi (Chinese people).
- Naxi (Chinese people)--Kinship.
- Naxi (Chinese people)--Social life and customs.
- Matrilineal kinship--China, Southwest.
- Matrilineal kinship.
- Sex role--China, Southwest.
- Sex role.
- Kinship.
- Southwest China.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- The people and their history
- The 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804761994
- 080476199X
- OCLC:
- 318672969
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