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Quest for harmony : the Moso traditions of sexual union and family life / Chuan-kang Shih.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804773447
- 0804773440
- OCLC:
- 646066552
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