Moso society which better known as Na, is a small minority group living in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China. For over decades, they have implemented a matrilineal system through their culture. Matrilineality is defined as a system in which their descendants are traced using their mother lineages. Since Moso society applied the matrilineal system in their culture, there are several implications and characteristics that can be analyzed from that point of view. One of the practice in an accordance
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live with an established residence of patrilocal, meaning the household consist of the husband’s parents, brothers and their brother’s wives and children. Dadi’s families have post-marital patterns and pros and cons for each of the family members. Mosuo on the other hand is an ethnic group from southwestern China who also live in a patrilocal community but have matrilineal ties meaning they help each others family but live with their own. In this society the women have different positions than in
Hindu and Islamic cultures and religions maintain a patriarchal way of life. While on the other hand, the Mosuo people of China are one of the few remaining societies that don’t consider a gender superior over the other but their women are seen as being more prestigious than their men and that may make the Mosuo a matriarch. Without a doubt, the differences between Hindu, Islamic, and Mosuo views on a superior gender are impacted by their different religions, and cultural beliefs. According to the
amongst individual cultures. The video The Women’s Kingdom provides an example of an uncommon gender role, which is seen in the Wujiao Village where the Mosuo women are the last matriarchy in the country and have been around for over one thousand years. Unlike other rural Chinese villages where many girls are degraded and abandoned at birth, Mosuo woman are proud and run the households where the men simply assist in what they need. The view of gender as a cultural construct ... ... middle of paper
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