Uniting Ancestors and Benefiting Each Other:the House Society and Its Grouping Logic of the"Guoshanyao"People(过山瑶)in Hezhou
The"Guoshanyao"people in Hezhou equally emphasize on both paternal kinship and maternal kinship,and their mainstream form of marriage is between male and female,in which they are free to get married and divorce,with bi-lineal succession with gender equality.Thus a house society based on family continuity as the essential way of social self-preservation has been formed.This kind of house society effectively integrates virilocal and uxorilocal marriage,patrilineal descent and matrilineal descent,paternal kinship and maternal kinship,which are often difficult to coexist in many other societies.The"family cooperation"and"mutualism"are the social grouping and operation logic of the"Guoshanyao"house society.
House societyBi-lineal descentSocial groupingthe Yao ethic group
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