LAWS OF INHERITANCE AND GENDER IN THE MOSUO COMMUNITY IN CHINA
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On the border of the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, lives a community that has remained diverged from the mainstream system of familial relations that govern our milieu. Lugu Lake and the areas around are places where the concepts of husbands or fathers or any male dominated role are essentially non-existent. A population of almost forty thousand Mosuo’s lives in this so-called ‘Kingdom of Women’. Right from the ownership and control of property to managing the finances of the family and even to offspring having full property rights, women pervade over almost all areas of influence in this rather unique family unit. They are also free from reproductive demands. The only area where men exercise greater authority is the political arena. Their political identity is not a true indicator of their actual way of life. While the Chinese government has placed them in the category of the Nakhi minority, they are very different from them. However, it is safe to say that his ‘matriarchal’ system is seemingly frozen in time.
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