A history and anthropological study of the ancient kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan borderland-Naxi and Mosuo
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A history and anthropological study of the ancient kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan borderland-Naxi and Mosuo
(Mellen studies in anthropology, v. 11)
Edwin Mellen Press, c2003
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 465-489
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study contributes to Naxi and Mosuo studies, Chinese, Yunnanese and Himalayan studies, and the fields of anthropology, history, ethnic studies and religion. It is a multidimensional anthropological study devoted to the history of Naxi social institutions and the political history of the southwestern Sino-Tibetan frontier. This study presents original data on both matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo society, and original ethnographic information on patrilineal Mosuo families and marriage system. It also proposes a Mosuo matriarchal history, a significant claim for anthropological theory. It also contributes to the fields of Himalayan studies and pre-Buddhist religions and the relationship between religion and politics in tribal societies. It explains the origins of Naxi Dongba pictographic script in territorial cults and military expansion. On the basis of her own fieldwork, the author also describes the rapidly disappearing Mosuo Daba religion, of which little is known outside China. It presents an entirely original reading of primary and secondary Chinese sources.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - matrilineality and the making of the Naxi nationality and Mosuo people divine kings and courteous vassals - the genealogical chronicles of the Naxi chiefs
- between heaven and earth - the lords of Mu
- on the origins of the Dongba manuscripts
- rock art, pictographs and the foundation of feudal dominion
- love and marriage - a comparative review of kinship diversity in northern Yunnan
- marriage and the transformation of Naxi polity during the Ming dynasty
- love suicide, political resistance and the persistence of custom
- on the genealogy of the Naxi nationality
- conclusion
- appendix.
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