Abstract
The article is based upon firsthand material collected by the author. The author begins with main features of matriarchal families still existing among the Moso people inhabiting People's Commune of Yongning , Ninglang Yi People Autonomous County, Yunnan. About half of the Моgо inhabitants of Yongning still keeps a kind of marriage customs alongside maternal authority. Most mothers do not marry off their daughters who are permitted to cohabit with her lover at home. The continuance of this relation may remain at the option of the parties. It is a duty of daughters to give birth to and bring up children for their mother's family. The last part of the article is an analysis of Moso kinship terms. It discusses the interrelation between Moso matriarcal families and the language they speak.
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