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Chuan-Kang Shih - Quest for Harmony - 9780804761994 - V9780804761994
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Quest for Harmony

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Description for Quest for Harmony This is a comprehensive ethnographic study about the Moso, a matrilineal group in Southwest China, whose unique traditions are bound to change accepted notions of marriage, kinship, the family, and gender relations. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 table, 20 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 590.

In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih 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. In a comprehensive account, Quest ... Read more explores this unique practice specifically, and offers thorough documentation, fine-grained analysis, and an engaging discussion of the people, history, and structure of Moso society. Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork, conducted from 1987 to 2006, this is the first ethnography of the Moso written in English.

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Product Details

Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804761994
SKU
V9780804761994
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Ref
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About Chuan-Kang Shih
Chuan-kang Shih teaches Anthropology and Asian Studies at the University of Florida.

Reviews for Quest for Harmony
"In Quest for Harmony Shih painstakingly uses historical records, earlier untranslated work of Chinese ethnographers, and his own fieldwork, ongoing since 1987, to argue that the highest Moso goal was household harmony . . . Quest for Harmony, the definitive Moso ethnography, is essential for scholars seriously interested in comparative family systems and women's rights."
Nancy S. Netting
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