Gemu Mountain,the highest peak beside Lugu Lake,bears striking resemblance to the profile of a slumbering woman:forehead,nose,chin,elegantly curved neck,and sloped breasts clearly defined.According to lore,Gemu was a ...
Being the only extant matriarchal society in China,the Mosuo people are now living in the border of Yunnan and Sichuan.Under the combined influence of its unique form of society and the coexistence of diversified ethn...
This paper take Mosuo as discussing object, analysis the mosuo women and characteristics of matrilinealilty, the conflicts om culture, Some relevant cross-culture measures have been taken to protect our Mosuo endanger...
The village of Luoshui is located near Lugu Lake, in Ninglang County, in Southwest China's Yunnan Province. There are 72 households, inhabited by ethnic Mosuo people, in the village. In recent years, the rapidly deve...
The matriarch's room is the center of any Mosuo family's house; it is the room in which the family dines, entertains guests, discusses family business, and worships the gods. The square hearth in the matriarch's ro...
Supported by Key Project of Natural Science of Sichuan Province Office of Education(2003A183);Key Project of Natural Science of Liangshan Prefecture Science Commission in 2004(Liangshan Prefecture Science Bureau[2004]46J)~~
With Mosuo's sacred natural sites of mountainous forest in Yongning-Lugu Lake area as the research subject,by using the method of ecology,the vegetation type in this area was initially identified.The control sample pl...
The undulant Hengduan Mountains create a famous corridor where,throughout history,various ethnic groups have moved back and forth.Of the ethnic groups, the Mosuo people have scattered around Lugu Lake.In the region,th...
Duzhi Lamu, 37, lives in a wooden house in Wenquan, a dusty Mosuo village in Yunnan Province. She can climb a mountain with the agility of a teenager, and she farms the land with the strength of a man. She lives with ...
I first heard about the Mosuo matrilineal society some years ago, and it has intrigued me ever since. The Mosuo people, a branch of the Naxi ethnic minority, live near Lugu Lake, on the boundary of Sichuan and Yunnan ...
Despite today's increasing commercial activities seemingly creating distance between people, the custom of maternal uncles helping to raise nieces and nephews is retained by Mosuo people, long-time inhabitants of the ...