> Someone had better tell Carol Christ. She needs better evidence
> while she bangs the "peaceful ancient matriarchy" drum:
>
> <http://blog.chasclifton.com/?p=3098>
>
Well, she does cite the Mosuo, correctly, and points to the pressure on
them (currently Chinese sex tourists and feminist tourists, after an
abandoned attempt by the Communists to establish Patriarchal monogamous
family norms on them in the 1970s - reminds me of the imposition of monogamy
on Canadian First Nations as part of the Imperial project in this country in
the 1870s- present).
It's an interesting example - a large enough (roughly 20-40 thousand people)
culture, and documented for at least two thousand years in the same area,
organized in the same way. But one example is not enough to support a grand
theory.
Best
Sam Wagar
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