polygynie sororale et le sororat dans la Chine féodale

Granet, Marcel

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“…It the past this word "xing" also meant "family". ( M. Granet, 1920 ). The Chinese texts often recalled that barbarians "only knew their mothers and not their fathers", and that, in some ethnic groups "women are superior" (Cai, H., 2001).…”

Section: B the Dong Nüguo Data Is Compelling Even If Some Problemsmentioning

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“…The Chinese texts often recalled that barbarians "only knew their mothers and not their fathers", and that, in some ethnic groups "women are superior" (Cai, H., 2001). But the Chinese themselves in a further away past also only knew their mothers; so did most of the legendary culture-heroes such as Huangdi and Shennong, said to be products of miraculous conception, possessing a mother but not a father (M. Granet 1919Granet , 1926Granet , 1929 Other clues indicating a rather influential position of women at the eve of the Chinese civilization are the famous "Yin-Yang", known as a Daoist symbol of complementary equal forces, interacting to form the dynamic system of life but which concept is engrained in the earliest Chinese philosophy, as well as the legend of Xi Wangmu the "Queen/divine Mother of the West" whose name is first found on oracle bone inscription dating from 1500 BC.…”

Section: B the Dong Nüguo Data Is Compelling Even If Some Problemsmentioning

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The Matriarchal Societies’ Case - How Chinese Data about the Dong Nuguo Could Entice Western Scholars to Re-Open It.

Darragon¹

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR-2013)

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-My 15 year research of the star-shaped towers of the Tibetan-Qiang-Yi Corridor has lead me to study and research, in ancient Chinese texts, the clues about an ancient matriarchal society, the "Dong Nuguo", documented until the Tang Dynasty. Surprisingly the matriarchal quality of this ancient society had never been evaluated in depth by scholars. Chinese scholars until recently somewhat took for granted a matriarchal past and Western scholars mostly favoured the "Timeless Patriarchy" and "Nuclear Family" theories. Archaeological findings are rather inconclusive. This paper will explain these opposite Western and Chinese attitudes and their reasons to be as well as my reasons for believing that the data found in the Chinese Annals and other ancient texts is probably sufficient to establish that this society did in fact exist. This paper will also briefly explain how new findings in anthropology and animal biology demonstrate that the nuclear family model is far from universal; and that the latest neuroscience support intersex brain. I will consequently argue that men and women have the same potential leadership qualities required for the existence of societies where women were in power, and that time has come to re-open the case of the matriarchal societies -a topic that has been taboo, in western anthropological circles, for at least 50 years.Key terms -Matriarchy, Matrilineal, Tibetan-Qiang-Yi Corridor of southwest China, Dong Nuguo. I . IntroductionIn 2009, I felt that my research, started in 1998, about the Star-shaped Towers of the Tibetan-Qiang-Yi Corridor 1 of south-west China was nearly completed. Then Francesco Bandarin (UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture), on my invitation, finally came to visit the towers, a timely highpoint for his unfaltering support of my "Towers Project" since 2003. As we were traveling he explained that, to Succeed in getting the towers of the different regions listed as serial Cultural Landscapes, it was needed to ascertain that they had in common, not only similar towers, but also common cultural markers. Consequently these cultural markers needed 1 This area is usually called "Sino-Tibetan Marches" or Tribal Corridor by western scholars, and "Zang-Yi Zou Lang" by Chinese scholars. I hereby define the term I use of "Tibetan-Qiang-Yi Corridor" as the mountainous regions where the languages spoken belong to at least two of the three following languages families : Tibetan, Qiangic or Yi.to be researched and documented, indirectly implying that I should start to work on it. At the time little did I know that this research was to lead me to argue in favour of the "veracity" of the existence of a genuine ancient matriarchy, located in a towers" region and documented in the Chinese Annals. As this very society, which was to collapse after 742, certainly was not a "patriarchal ideological construct", this in turn led me to question the western belief of the "Myth of Matriarchy" as "but the tool to keep woman bound to her place" (J. Bamberger, 1974) and also to look ...

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Section: B the Dong Nüguo Data Is Compelling Even If Some Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B the Dong Nüguo Data Is Compelling Even If Some Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Matriarchal Societies’ Case - How Chinese Data about the Dong Nuguo Could Entice Western Scholars to Re-Open It.

Darragon¹

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR-2013)

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“…Ainsi, pour eux, la différence de l'été et de l'hiver n'était pas seulement celle de la saison où on a chaud, et de celle où on a froid, c'était celle de deux périodes qui n'avaient rien de commun, où la vie entière s'ordonnait de façon absolument autre : en hiver, la période de réclusion où chaque famille vivait dans sa propre maison, repliée sur elle-même, séparée de ses voisines avec lesquelles en principe elle ne communiquait pas ; en été, au contraire, la période de liberté et de plein air, où le groupe familial se perdait dans la communauté (181), où la maison particulière disparaissait remplacée par la hutte commune, où les travaux domestiques particuliers étaient remplacés par la culture en commun des champs ; entre les deux, le printemps et l'a utomne, étaient des périodes de transition où les deux genres de vie s'entre mêlaient.…”

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Maspero¹

2004

Classiques Des Sciences Sociales.

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polygynie sororale et le sororat dans la Chine féodale

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The Matriarchal Societies’ Case - How Chinese Data about the Dong Nuguo Could Entice Western Scholars to Re-Open It.

The Matriarchal Societies’ Case - How Chinese Data about the Dong Nuguo Could Entice Western Scholars to Re-Open It.

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