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•CELEBRATING WOMEN’S CULTURAL TRADITIONS: NÜSHU & THE MOSUO•
Through the lens of #Nüshu & #Mosuo culture, Zilu reflects on the wisdom of life & the values that shape our humanity.
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#Sisterhood #Solidarity #Brighton
Two tourists immersing themselves in role-playing in the Mosuo (摩梭族) #Tea Ceremony
📍Yunnan, China. 2007
The Mosuo people speak Naxi, and believe in Tibetan Buddhism. The #Mosuo people are a matriarchal society, only practicing "walking-in" marriage
#Photography #Culture #写真 #Foto #Travel
📽️ Sat 14 Dec 6pm | ESEA Film Night 🎞️ I AM MOSO doc
hear from #Mosuo matriarch community
📍Camden Chinese Community Centre WC1H 9SN
🖌️ Sun 15 Dec 2pm | YI Crafts Studio 🗣️ Moso Museum Talk & Woodblock Printing Workshop
📍Yi Crafts Studio NW10 2UW
🎟️ £15-35 ℹ️ yicrafts.com/studio-works...
#China #London
Original study: A. Z. Reynolds et al., #Matriliny reverses #gender disparities in #inflammation and #hypertension among the #Mosuo of #China, @PNASNews 117(48), 2020. 🔓
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2014403117
"#Matriliny doesn’t reverse #gender biases so that women dominate men. It seems to reduce inequality significantly for a healthier population overall, at least among #Mosuo people."
www.sapiens.org/culture/matrilineal-kins... via @SAPIENS_org
"The immediate family had 14 members and owned 1.5 acres of land, where they grew barley, corn, potato, beans, and cabbage. The extended family incorporated 30 people, with each branch organized under a biological mother." https://t.co/f3Y2nbvAjr Photo: Zhang Hongyi #Mosuo #China
"The immediate family had 14 members and owned 1.5 acres of land, where they grew barley, corn, potato, beans, and cabbage. The extended family incorporated 30 people, with each branch organized under a biological mother." https://t.co/f3Y2nbvAjr Photo: Zhang Hongyi #Mosuo #China
“For roughly 2,000 years, the 40,000 or so Mosuo have pursued a matrilineal lifestyle, meaning property is passed down through women, & children take the mother’s surname.”
Read walking partner Liu Kankan’s story https://t.co/iSZcoLBzNr #Mosuo #matriarchy #EdenWalk @InsideNatGeo
“For roughly 2,000 years, the 40,000 or so Mosuo have pursued a matrilineal lifestyle, meaning property is passed down through women, & children take the mother’s surname.”
Read walking partner Liu Kankan’s story https://t.co/iSZcoLBzNr #Mosuo #matriarchy #EdenWalk @InsideNatGeo
Trekking into a “kingdom of women” in the remote mountains of southwest #China, writer Liu Kankan explores daily life in one the world’s rare matriarchal cultures. @outofedenwalk @InsideNatGeo @NatGeoEducation #EdenWalk #matriarchy #mosuo https://t.co/G2tt8mFtw9
Trekking into a “kingdom of women” in the remote mountains of southwest #China, writer Liu Kankan explores daily life in one the world’s rare matriarchal cultures. @outofedenwalk @InsideNatGeo @NatGeoEducation #EdenWalk #matriarchy #mosuo https://t.co/G2tt8mFtw9
A log ranch in Rockies of Colorado? Nope. Sunset at an ethnic #Mosuo village, nearing 10,000 feet (2900m) in the eastern Himalayas rumpling the Yunnan-Sichuan border in #China. Trails padded by rusty-red pine needles. Bears. And lamaseries. ##WildEast #EdenWalk
A log ranch in Rockies of Colorado? Nope. Sunset at an ethnic #Mosuo village, nearing 10,000 feet (2900m) in the eastern Himalayas rumpling the Yunnan-Sichuan border in #China. Trails padded by rusty-red pine needles. Bears. And lamaseries. ##WildEast #EdenWalk
Original study:
@adamZreynolds et al., #Matriliny reverses #gender disparities in #inflammation and #hypertension among the #Mosuo of China, @PNASNews December 1, 2020 117 (48) 30324-30327. 🔓
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30324
Inside the #Mosuo, a fading #Chinese #culture ruled by #women http://wapo.st/2ufh78M#9da0c8bbd9 via @washingtonpost
