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Walsh, Eileen

doi:10.1007/0-387-29907-6_71

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“…Similar patterns were observed in our study area. Lower birth rates, higher rates of dispersal, and market economy, which lead to a decrease of duolocal residence (Ji et al, 2016; Mattison, 2010) and matrilineal households in this area (Walsh, 2004), might account for the observed decrease in family size. In this paper, we investigated the effects of family size on the average inclusive fitness of households, using evolutionary game models among co-residing relatives.…”

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“…We followed changes in 378 Mosuo duolocal households from the year 2007 to 2017, of which most married members applied for duolocal residence in the year 2007. Traditionally, individuals applying for duolocal residence live with their maternal kin, whereas husbands and wives live apart, and children live with their mothers (He et al, 2016, 2022; Walsh, 2004; Wu et al, 2013). Family-group size includes only the current members of a family and does not include individuals who were born in the family but are now permanently living elsewhere.…”

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“…The Mosuo of southwest China is one of the few populations living in a duolocal matrilineal social system (where husband and wife live apart) (He et al, 2016; Walsh, 2004; Wu et al, 2013). Traditionally, Mosuo men and women do not leave their natal household for their whole life, and husbands visit their wives at night (visiting or “walking” marriage, also called “zouhun” in Mandarin or “sese” in the Mosuo language).…”

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“…Traditionally, Mosuo men and women do not leave their natal household for their whole life, and husbands visit their wives at night (visiting or “walking” marriage, also called “zouhun” in Mandarin or “sese” in the Mosuo language). Typically, the Mosuo live in large matrilineal households which once could contain up to 20-30 members (Walsh, 2004), comprised of one or multiple grandmothers, her/their brothers, sons and daughters, and offspring of their daughters. Nevertheless, recruiting female or male family members through adoption or cohabiting is common when households lack descendants of either sex.…”

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Kin selection underpins family dynamics in rural China

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Wang,

et al. 2023

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The number of co-resident members is an important characteristic of human families and thus plays an important role in human evolution. However, an inclusive fitness model of how many members should co-reside has not been explicitly tested. Here we use an evolutionary game model and a decade of family dynamic data from a rural population of southwestern China (1,110 households) to show that the existence of an evolutionary stable family size can be understood by considering the average local relatedness and average inclusive fitness of the family. We found that average relatedness (r̅) decreased with increasing family size, and r̅ was associated with helping behavior (especially for the elders) in the family, so the family tended to keep a higher level of average relatedness by adjusting the number of co-resident members. These findings are helpful to understand the variation in family size in different cultures and to demonstrate the importance of kin selection in regulating family dynamics.

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Kin selection underpins family dynamics in rural China

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Wang,

et al. 2023

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“…The Mosuo are a Tibeto-Burmese people residing in the foothills of the Himalayas (Shih, 2010;Walsh, 2004). The Yongning basin, where flatlands can be used for rice cultivation, is the traditional home of the matrilineal Mosuo.…”

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Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China

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Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesized to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies provides a means of testing this hypothesis. Using demographic data collected from 505 households among the matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo in 2017, we test whether MI is associated with increased material wealth, whether increased material wealth is associated with wealth inequality, and whether being in a matrilineal versus patrilineal kinship system alters the relationship between wealth and inequality. We find evidence that market integration, measured as distance to the nearest source of tourism and primary source of household income, was associated with increased household income and “modern” asset value. Both village-level market integration and mean asset value were associated negatively, rather than positively, with inequality, contrary to predictions. Finally, income, modern wealth, and inequality were higher in matrilineal communities, which are located closer to the center of tourism and where tourism has long provided a relatively stable source of income. However, we also observed exacerbated inequality with increasing farm animal value in patriliny. We conclude that the forces affecting wealth and inequality depend on local context and that the importance of local institutions is obscured by aggregate statistics drawn from modern nation states.

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An examination of tourists’ identity in tourist weblogs

Wang

Morais

2014

Inf Technol Tourism

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The present study focused on one of the new mass media technologies, weblogs, which allow more tourists to construct an expressive self by posting their writings about their travel experiences. The current research examined the meanings represented in the personal travel experiences and how self-identity is constructed in the touristic discourse. Utilizing critical discourse analysis (CDA), the travel blogs posted by Chinese tourists about their experiences of visiting a Chinese minority group-the matriarchal Mosuo-were analyzed. Among 69 blogs, four major topics were located. The study identified the fragmented, fluid, and flexible nature of selfidentity constructed in the postmodern social conditions.

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Kin selection underpins family dynamics in rural China

Kin selection underpins family dynamics in rural China

Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China

An examination of tourists’ identity in tourist weblogs

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