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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.
Moso Walking Marriage: Among the Moso there is not marriage as we understand it. Instead they practice a kind of marriage called azhu, for which when the night falls; the men go to the woman's house, leaving it before dawn.
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
After more than a quarter of a century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began openly practising their religion again in the early 1990s. Their priests are called daba.
Cai Junsheng.- The Projection of Gender Relations in Prehistoric China
I will examine the matriarchal system of the Naxi nationality in Yongning county, Yunnan province, where the most complete example of a matriarchal society in the contemporary world is to be found.
About half of the inhabitants of Yongning still keeps a kind of marriage customs alongside maternal authority. Most mothers do not marry off their daughters who are permitted to cohabit with her lover at home. The continuance of this relation may remain at the option of the parties. It is a duty of daughters to give birth to and bring up children for their mother's family.
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
In this area, women are considered superior and mothers are highly respected. The big trees are called female trees while the small ones are called male trees; the big mountain is called mother-mountain while the small ones are called male mountains. The matrilineal blood ties are paramount.
Lamu Gatusa (Mosuo).- Matriarchal Marriage Patterns of the Mosuo People of China
The matriarchal family is composed exclusively of matrilineal
members, including grandmother, mother, maternal aunts, and uncles (mother's
brothers), sisters and brothers, and the children of oneself and of the
sisters. No members of the parental side are part of it. The members of
a matrilineal family belong to a mother or her sister's children.
Books and references
Basic Bibliography
of the Moso: Some of the basic books about the Moso
in western languages.
Liu Xuehan.- Discovering the Mysterious Oriental Kingdom of the Female: a short book about the Mosou people written by an author who have been in contact with them for more than 20 years.
Lamu
Gatusa.- Lugu Lake - Mother Lake: a join work of the
writer Lamu Gatusa, himself a Moso born near the lake, and Li Yuebo, a
well known photographer who has visited the area extensively. The result
is a nice book with nice pictures and an interesting, though concise texts.
Chinese Bibliography of the Moso: Some of the most important books in Chinese about the Moso.
A book about the kinship system of the Nahing: There are many affinities between the Nahing people and the Na people of Yongning. The latter are well known for its unique system of "visit" marriage.
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