The Kingdom of Women
Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains
Seiten
2020
Tauris Parke (Verlag)
978-0-7556-0095-3 (ISBN)
Tauris Parke (Verlag)
978-0-7556-0095-3 (ISBN)
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'.
A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none.
Choo WaiHong, a corporate lawyer, yearned for escape and ended up living in Mosuo for six years - the only non-Mosuo to have ever done so. She tells the story of the remarkable story of her time in the remote mountains of China and gives a vibrant, compelling glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knife-edge of extinction.
A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none.
Choo WaiHong, a corporate lawyer, yearned for escape and ended up living in Mosuo for six years - the only non-Mosuo to have ever done so. She tells the story of the remarkable story of her time in the remote mountains of China and gives a vibrant, compelling glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knife-edge of extinction.
Choo Waihong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China.
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Preface
Prelude
Map: Kingdom of Women
1. Arriving in the Kingdom of Women
2. Building a Mosuo Home
3. Going Native
4. Getting to Know the Mosuos
5. Becoming the Godmother
6. Hunting and Eating in Bygone Times
7. How the Mosuo Women Rock
8. The Men Rock Too
9. A Marriage That Is Not a Marriage
10. The Matrilineal Ties That Bind
11. The Birth-Death Room
12. On the Knife-Edge of Extinction
Glossary
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.05.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 colour in 16 pp plate |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 178 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7556-0095-9 / 0755600959 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7556-0095-3 / 9780755600953 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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