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Author Choo, WaiHong, author

Title The kingdom of women : life, love and death in China's hidden mountains / Choo WaiHong
Published London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 202 pages) : color illustrations, map
Contents Arriving in the kingdom of women -- Building a Mosuo home -- Going native -- Getting to know the Mosuos -- Becoming the godmother -- Hunting and eating in bygone times -- How the Mosuo women rock -- The men rock too -- A marriage that is not marriage -- The matrilineal ties that bind -- The birth-death room -- On the knife-edge of extinction
Summary In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matriarchal societies on earth, where the women hold power. They make the major decisions, control household finances, have rightful ownership of land and property and full rights to the children born to them. Most notably, the Mosuo practice something called 'walking marriage' where, from the age of 13, women can choose to take lovers - as many or as few as they wish - from men within the tribe. Choo Waihong discovered the Mosuo several years ago and lived with them for six years, becoming part of a Mosuo family and of the wider community - the only non-Mosuo to have ever done so. The story of her time in the remote mountains of China is both poignant and compelling: a vibrant glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knife-edge of extinction
Notes Includes glossary
Print version record
Subject Women -- China -- Yunnan Sheng
Women -- China -- Sichuan Sheng
Matriarchy -- China -- Yunnan Sheng
Matriarchy -- China -- Sichuan Sheng
Ethnic groups -- China -- Yunnan Sheng
Ethnic groups -- China -- Sichuan Sheng
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic groups
Matriarchy
Women
Nakhi
Frau
Matriarchat
Nationale Minderheit
Minderheitenpolitik
Ethnosoziologie
Sozialanthropologie
China -- Sichuan Sheng
China -- Yunnan Sheng
China -- Südwest
Yunnan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786721709
1786721708
9781786731708
1786731703