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The Uxorilocal Msrriage Of The Hualan Yao's

Posted on:2009-02-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360245470344Subject:History of Chinese Ethnic Minorities
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The uxorilocal marriage is one kind of marriage form,that the husband leaves his natal family,moves to his wife's family,and takes the main body relations by the wife's family .This marrriange still exists in the Guangxi Jin Xiu Yao national minority Autonomous Country Dayao Hualan Yao's area. This article carries on about the uxorilocal marriage and the Hualan Yao's marriage's literature, unifies the field investigation material in Men Tou village of Liu Xiang township Jin Xiu Yao national minority Autonomous Country, uses the history, the anthropology and the sociological correlation theories to analysis Hualan Yao's uxorilocal marriage.What is to nalysis: the radius of marriage, the spouse Choosing standards and channels, the betrothal ceremony, the wedding, the marriage residence, property inheritance, family pension and the causes of the uxorilocal marriage and its changes, the trend of future development. What is to nalysis more : the mutual relations between the uxorilocal marriage with the local low fertility rate ,lower birth sex ratio population, and solving the problem of family pension. Under the uxorilocal marriage pattern ,there are some traditional custom rule and sometimes generation of change element for the male and the female to love, obtain the marriage permission and hold the wedding ceremony . The married couples living in the woman's home, shoulder the responsibility of the woman's family: to maintenance elderly, to care for young, to participate in the production of the woman's family labor. The married couples enjoy the resources of the woman's family: land, production tools, such as family property. In general their children named with the wife, and inherited the wife's family business portal .This kind of marriage pattern is helpful to stabilize the low birth rate, to reduce the population sex ratio at birth, to solve the rural elderly pension difficulties having no sons.The reason that the uxorilocal marriage pattern can maintain and exten is: First, in this small community, the son-in-law can obtain the proper approval and the respect in the family and the society. Second, compared other nationalities or the Yao national minority collateral series, there is richer and better economic condition in Hualan Yao's village ,and can attract the poor area male to be the visit son-in-law. But with the economic situation improving, the population quantity reducing because of the carrying out birth control,the Hualan Yao's uxorilocal marriage is facing the challenge: Reduces gradually, or will completely be substituted by the virilocal marriage.
Keywords/Search Tags:HUALAN YAO, UXORILOCAL MARRIAGE, CULTURE CHANGE
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