Mosuo

standing in contrast to the general pattern of paternal lineage in the world. 'Mosuo of China ' is an example of matrilineal society which is famous for its strong resemblance to a matriarchal society. The Mosuo are a small ethnic group living in the mountainous terrains of southwest China. Mosuo culture defies classification within the known conventional definitions. It can be said that Mosuo has some aspects of martriarchy,like women are the chief of houses,inheritence

provinces of southwest china have been home to the people of the Mosuo culture for nearly 2000 years. With a population of approximately 56, 000, the Mosuo tribe is dwarfed when compared to china’s population of 3.1 billion. The majority of the families live around Lugu Lake, a region that was isolated from the world until the 1970s.The Mosuo tribe is often described as one of the last living matriarchal societies today. “Given that Mosuo women make most of the major decisions, control the household

the father is the head of the family, the villages are a matriarchal society The Mosuo women are believed to part of the last matriarchal society in China. Even as an agricultural society, women are out in the field working, but some stay inside to help with the children. Back in U. S’s agricultural times, the men did all the working while the women took care of the children and did all the household work. The Mosuo women do take care of the children in these societies, but the women’s family help

I read the article by Schlegel and at first the women seemed very inferior to the men. The more I read, the more I noticed that the article leaned in a different direction. It reminded me of the Mosuo. The Hopi women seem as dominant as the Mosuo women. The article started out saying that "When Hopi Children are born, they're assured a place within matrilocal household and matrilineal clan" (Schlegel 170). Boys... taught to be companions and helpers (Schlegel 170). Girls, a source of continuously

Matriarchal Cultures: The Native American There has long been debate among anthropologists about matriarchal societies. But that is a historical result of last 500 years of European military expansion and extermination of native cultures. There are a few societies whose status as matriarchies is disputed among anthropologists and this is as much a debate about terminology as it is about interpreting how another society defines status and such, their self-understanding as opposed to our

Moso is a Chinese ethnic group that is famous for being a matriarchal society with minimal contact from the outside world. In Moso matrilineal system, woman is the pillar of the family. As the head of a family as well as a mother, a Moso woman is responsible to determine family’s name, decision, and inheritance. No one has right to replace woman’s authority, even a man. This is the primary point of a matriarchy which traces the side of Moso family’s lineage through the descendant of woman. What is

driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology (Globalization 101). Globalization has progressively integrated its way into all countries, consequently, it has also integrated its way in the Gwich’n society and the Mosuo people of Southwest China leaving both positive and negative impacts on their traditional culture and society. The Gwich’ns Society are indigenous people of northwest Canada. In the Gwich’n society their role is to maintain their own cultural identity

of Andaloor in India and the Mosuo people of Southwest China, their perceptions of one another, my own personal perceptions of these practices, and my attitude towards diversity. This paper provides background information on the two different countries and also demonstrates my knowledge on the subject of cultural differences in marriage in the two countries.   Cross-Cultural Differences in Marriage Practices between the People of Andaloor and the People of Mosuo Introduction Marriage or a

Moso society, better known as Na, is a small ethnic group living in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China. For decades, they have implemented a matrilineal system in their culture. Matrilineal system is defined as a system in which their descendants are traced using their mothers’ lineage. Since Moso society applied the matrilineal system in their culture, there are several implications and characteristics that can be analyzed from that point. One important feature of matrilineal is called “walking

In 1995, I burst into tears in entrance ceremony of primary school in China. I was the only one in school who was not granted a red scarf. As a seven-year-old, I thought it was the red scarf that divided me from others. I badgered the school principal until I was finally allowed to be the first foreign student in school who owned a red scarf, only to find out that wearing a red scarf to school made little difference. Ever since, my identity has roamed somewhere between an insider and an outsider