摩梭人家庭婚姻制度的人类学解读

从人类文化生活的生境适应性理论重新诠释摩梭人的家庭婚姻制度的由来,可以知道它是由摩梭人历史上的社会经济特点决定的,而不是原始母系氏族社会的遗留现象.研究认为:在自然生境条件下具有游动型经济文化特征的族群,其女子的社会作用呈显性倾向,而具有农耕型定居特征的族群,其男子在社会中的作用则具有显性特征.摩梭人的半游动半农耕之"马帮文化"成就了摩梭人的社会特点和价值取向,使其家庭生活和婚姻制度具有游动型经济文化特征的显著特点.

An Anthropological Interpretation of the Family and Marriage System of the Mosuo People

A reinterpretation of the family and marriage system of the Mosuo people based on the theory of human living adaptation has revealed that this special system was formed and determined not by the inheritance of the primitive matriarchal society of the Mosuos but by the Mosuo's socio-economic and historical development.The paper concludes that in the natural living surroundings the women of the ethnic groups that have a nomadic culture and economy usually have a dominant position while the men of the ethnic g...