A Society without Fathers or Husbands : The Na of China

中國的Na，喜馬拉雅地區的農民，沒有婚姻制度。 Na兄弟姐妹一起生活，分擔家務，撫養女子。因為Na像所有文化一樣禁止亂倫，所以他們在女人的家裡練習一種有時偷偷摸摸，有時候顯眼的夜間遭遇的系統。這個女人的伴侶 - 她經常不止一個 - 對她或她的孩子沒有經濟責任，而“父親”，除非他們像孩子一樣，仍然無法辨認。這項清晰的人種學研究表明，沒有丈夫或父親，社會如何運作。它揭示了婚姻和血緣關係，以及婦女的地位，獲得身份的必要條件，以及共產主義國家對其認為落後的社會的影響。

The Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution of marriage. Na brothers and sisters live together their entire lives, sharing household responsibilities and raising the women's children. Because the Na, like all cultures, prohibit incest, they practice a system of sometimes furtive, sometimes conspicuous nighttime encounters at the woman's home. The woman's partners―she frequently has more than one―bear no economic responsibility for her or her children, and "fathers," unless they resemble their children, remain unidentifiable. This lucid ethnographic study shows how a society can function without husbands or fathers. It sheds light on marriage and kinship, as well as on the position of women, the necessary conditions for the acquisition of identity, and the impact of a communist state on a society that it considers backward.

   Cai Hua (Autor)

Publisher:Zone Books 

ISBN:    978-1890951122 

原價   US 34 台幣價 NT$1330