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The Moso Name: Moso, Mosuo, Na, Nari Population: 38,000 Localization:
Yunnan Province, Lijiang Prefecture, Ninglang Yi Autonomous County,
and Sichuan Province, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Muli and
Yanyian counties. |
Introductory
Articles in Ethnic China
The Moso and their Goddesses: believe in numerous goddesses and gods. For them most phenomena of nature have their
The Moso Naming Ceremony: Moso celebrate this rite, which they call "choosing a name", immediately after the baby is born.
The Moso in the Web: The most interesting pages in Internet.
Scholars
Researches available in the Web
Cai Hua.- Daba -Na
shaman. A Study Guide
Liberty A. Lidz.- A Synopsis of Yongning Na (Mosuo)
The language of the Na (Mosuo) is estimated at 40,000 speakers (Yang Zhenhong, to appear), split between three dialects: Yongning, Beiquba, and Guabie (He and Jiang 1985:4). Na itself is categorized as an eastern variety of Naxi, which linguists variously characterize as an unsubgrouped Tibeto-Burman language (Thurgood 2003:19–20); on the periphery of Loloish
For nearly a hundred years now, there has been a debate on the cultural and historical relations between the Naxi of what I will call the Lijiang area and the Moso of Ninglang, Yanyuan, Yanbien and Muli counties.
Charles F. McKhann.- The Naxi and the Nationalities Question
The difference between the residence patterns, descent systems, and hierarchical structures of Naxi and Mosou ave obvious economic implications.
This paper outlines a participatory method for eliciting forest values and “cultural loss” by gender and ethnic group and is illustrated with data collected from four ethnic groups who live in The Lugu Lake Nature Reserve (Ninglang County, Yunnan, China). It would appear that a set of 13 forest values are recognized by most groups, there are significant differences between the forest value sets on the basis of ethnicity/gender.
Marsha Smith.- Constructing Identities: Tensions in Defining Naxi/Mosuo and Bai/Yi Ethnicities:
some
groups do receive a great deal of provincial and national subsidization
to re-establish cultural educational centers and religious activities.
Ruxian Yan.- The Kinship System of the Mosuo in China
Lamu
Gatusa (Mosuo).- Matriarchal
Marriage Patterns of the Mosuo People of China
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Chinese Bibliography of the Moso
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