A Survey of the Original Ecological Marriage of the Dong at Xiaoguang Village
In the case of original ecological marriage of the Dong at Xiaoguang Village,the study is to make an analysis of its historial changes and contemporary evolutions,leading to the conclusion that original ecological culture is always on the way of change and development.As a matter of fact,the protection and inheritance of original ecological should be carried out in the way of development.
Publisher Summary The field of kinship appears to have a greater resilience to political and economic forces that change lifestyles and life opportunities. The “modernization” literature stressed the inevitable demise of matrilineality and of extended kinship groupings with the rise of cash-crop economies, occupational diversification, and capitalism. The nuclear conjugal family was accepted as the inevitable outcome of urbanization and industrialization. This chapter examines the case for persistence among the matrilineal Plateau and Gwembe Tonga of southern Zambia, many of whom are living in the cities as wage workers and are dependent on a cash income. Gwembe and Plateau Tonga have not regarded their kinship systems as immutable but have had little need to change formal rules. They have used their kinship systems to obtain their objectives.