Quest for harmony

This ethnography details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult population practice a visiting system called tisese instead of marriage as the normal sexual and reproductive institution. Until recently, tisese was noncontractual, nonobligatory, and nonexclusive. Partners lived and worked in separate households. The only prerequisite for a tisese relationship was a mutual agreement between the man and the woman to allow sexual access to each other. This book explores this unique practice specifically, and offers a discussion of the people, history, and structure of Moso society.

Year

2009

Language

English

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Editions

1

Pages

329

ISBN

9780804761994

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