Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China

Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China

Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means of testing this hypothesis. Using demographic data collected from 505 households among the matrilineal and patrilineal Mosu...

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Main Authors: Siobhán M. Mattison, Neil MacLaren, Chun-Yi Sum, Peter M. Mattison, Ruizhe Liu, Mary K. Shenk, Tami Blumenfield, Mingjie Su, Hui Li, Katherine Wander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
Subjects:
Matriliny
patriliny
economic development
material wealth
communal institutions
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X22000524/type/journal_article

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