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Cultural Underpinnings of Gender Egalitarian and Matriculture Resiliency in Mosuo Society.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cultural Underpinnings of Gender Egalitarian and Matriculture Resiliency in Mosuo Society./
Author:	Warning, Kiersten E.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	646 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13900069
ISBN:	9781392287828

Cultural Underpinnings of Gender Egalitarian and Matriculture Resiliency in Mosuo Society.
Warning, Kiersten E.

Cultural Underpinnings of Gender Egalitarian and Matriculture Resiliency in Mosuo Society. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 646 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

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At 9,000 feet in the Himalayan foothills of the eastern edge of the northwest corner of China's southwestern Yunnan Province live 30,000 or so Mosuo people. The Mosuo are descendants of the Qiang peoples of ancient Tibet and have fascinated Chinese historians for thousands of years because of their traditional, consanguineous household configurations that eschewed marriage. More recently, they have captured the attention of Western scholars as one of the few gender egalitarian matricultures in the world. The fertile Yongning agricultural basin and its 18.73 square mile Lugu Lake have long provided the inhabitants of this area with stable food sources and rich, biodiverse landscapes. In 2000, China's Western Development Campaign accelerated ethno-tourism in Yunnan, where twenty-six of China's fifty-five ethnic minority groups reside. For the Mosuo, this strategy of closer state integration included paved roads, electricity, and wireless communication. Today, as Yongning's cash economies grow from increased out-migration and tourism, the Mosuo's traditional agro-pastoral practices must creatively conform to these new tourist labor and land use demands. At the same time, some Mosuo members of historically extended, consanguineous households are entering into conventional marriages and forming nuclear households. In an era of accelerated contact with Han and Western societies, Mosuo women and men continue to negotiate old and new cultural patterns of power and decision making that support gender egalitarian and matricultural resiliency. This dissertation explores four cultural underpinnings for this resiliency: 1) a historical pattern of protective political negotiation; 2) a successful integration of three forms of gender-affirming spiritual practices; and 3-4) creative negotiations of livelihood strategies built upon flexible kinship configurations. The Mosuo's deep, historical practices of "flexibility" as a cultural operating system embedded in these four underpinnings continue to maintain and perhaps even strengthen ideas and practices of gender egalitarian and matriculture resiliency.

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Cultural Underpinnings of Gender Egalitarian and Matriculture Resiliency in Mosuo Society.
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