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Quest for Harmony - The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life. (Hardcover)
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Quest for Harmony - The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life. (Hardcover)
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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 for Harmony"
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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