Mosuo
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thumb|right|Mosuo girl weaver in Old town Lijiang thumb|Clothes of religious ceremonies of Moso, photo taken at Moso's Folk museum.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Mosuo(also Moso, Musuo, Mosso and Naxi )
- Ethnic group.population
- 50,000
- Ethnic group.popplace
- (Sichuan Yunnan)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Na
- Ethnic group.religions
- Daba, and Tibetan Buddhism
- Ethnic group.related
- Nakhi
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- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Country
- China
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Encyclopedic overview
35 sectionsContents
- Introduction
- Lifestyle
- Daily life
- Role of women
- Role of men
- Matriarch
- History
- Adoption
- Walking marriages
- General practice
- Matrilineal society
- Advantages to a walking marriage
- Myths and controversies
- Mosuo women have many partners
- Fathers of children are commonly not known
- Customs
- Coming of age
- Hearth
- Funeral
- Dogs
- Religion
- Daba
- Buddhism
- Economy
- Language
- Script
- Intercultural exchanges
- Modernity
- Tourism
- Films
- See also
- Bibliography
- References
- Further media
- External links
thumb|right|Mosuo girl weaver in Old town Lijiang thumb|Clothes of religious ceremonies of Moso, photo taken at Moso's Folk museum.
The Mosuo (; also spelled Moso, Mosso or Musuo), often incorrectly referred to as the Naxi, are an ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces. Consisting of a population of approximately 50,000, many of them live in the Yongning region, around Lugu Lake, in Labai, in Muli, and in Yanyuan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mosuo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.