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1939297

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
A survey of 232 households of the Mosuo minority group in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, suggested that polyandrous matriarchy did not raise the birth rate per household, but lowered the community birth rate by restricting many women's chances of marrying. The results imply that tolerance by the national government of polyandry within certain minority groups (e.g. Mosuos and Tibetans) will not prevent but may aid the attainment of zero population growth by China in the twenty-first century.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9320
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
499-505
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:otherAbstract
PIP: Survey data from a stratified cluster sample of 163 Musuo households in Yongning and all 69 Musuo households in Xinman, which has strong Han influence, in Yunnan Province of China in January 1988 were analyzed for nuptiality and birthing patterns. The 1 child policy adopted in 1979 to stabilize the population of China at 1.2 billion by 2000 provides economic and medical rewards only to couples of the Han ethnic majority. Minorities constitute 8% of the population and do not have to comply with this policy. The concern is that the nonHan might raise the national birth rate and reduce the proportion of Han, even though nonHan life expectancy is lower and there is practice of polyandry. The Musuo have practiced matrilineal polyandry since the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368 AD). The general practice of polyandry is described as a walking marriage where women control material resources. The study hypothesis is that for Musuo women, matriarchy is associated with higher fertility than patriarchy, and polyandrous marriage is associated with higher fertility than is monogamous matriarchy or monogamous patriarchy. Type I households have as head a women whose husband either visits or lives with her but is not legally bound to her; it is de facto polyandry (26.7% of survey households). Type II is female-headed and daughters bring children into the household by de facto polyandry (41%), but sons formally weds monogamously. Type III is headed by a man and descent line is patrilineal (32%). The results showed that the polyandrous matriarchy did not raise the birth rate per household, but lowered the community birth rate by restricting the chances of women marrying (28.4% not married) due to the scarcity of unattached men. National government should practice tolerance of polyandry as an acid to the attainment of zero population growth. The surviving rate for births over the past 5 years or the child/woman ratio (the number 0-4 years/1000 women 15-44) is expected to be highest for households I and declining to III. The results were the opposite and do not support the hypothesis. The child/woman ratio was 386 for Type I (polyandrous matriarchy), 406 for Type II (polyandrous and monogamous matriarchy), and 411 for Type III (monogamous patriarchy), even in areas with a low level of economic development. The differences are minimal. Discussion is provided on the polyandry found among villagers of Limi in the Highlands of Nepal and the Tre-ba of Central Tibet, where there is fraternal polyandry patriarchies, where fertility rates of these unions were not higher, and a sizeable fraction of women 20-49 were left without mates (31% in Limi and 29% in Dhinga). In Kerala state, India and among the Kandyan Sinhalese of Sri Lanka, polyandry may not increase the fertility of individual wives, and is economically resourceful.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Matriarchy, polyandry, and fertility amongst the Mosuos in China.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article