Quest for harmony : the Moso traditions of sexual union and family life / / Chuan-kang Shih.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 329 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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.