Editing Mosuo (section)

==Introduction==
The Mosuo are often referred to as China's "last [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]] society".<ref name="tandfonline.com">{{cite journal|last1=Mattison|first1=Siobhán M.|title=Economic impacts of tourism and erosion of the visiting system among the Mosuo of Lugu lake|journal=The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology|date=2010|volume=11|issue=2|pages=159–176|doi=10.1080/14442211003730736|s2cid=153747731}}</ref> The Mosuo themselves may also often use the description ''[[Matriarchy|matriarchal]]'', which they believe increases interest in their culture and thus attracts tourism.<ref name = LLMCDA-Matrilineal>Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Development Association (2006). {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060504080350/http://www.mosuoproject.org/matri.htm The Mosuo: Matriarchal/Matrilineal Culture]}}. Retrieved on: 2011-07-10.</ref> However, the terms ''matrilineal'' and ''matriarchal'' do not reflect the full complexity of their [[social organization]]. In fact, it is not easy to categorize Mosuo culture within traditional anthropological categories. They have aspects of a matriarchal culture: women are often the head of the house, inheritance is through the female line, and women make business decisions. However, unlike a matriarchy, the political power tends to be in the hands of males.<ref name="LLMCDA-Matrilineal"/> For instance, a man named Ge Ze A Che is the political leader of Luoshui village.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Lu|last1=Yuan|first2=Sam|last2=Mitchell|title=Land of the Walking Marriage: For the Mosuo of China, it's a woman's world.|url=http://public.gettysburg.edu/~dperry/Class%20Readings%20Scanned%20Documents/Intro/Yuan.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241222162747/http://public.gettysburg.edu/~dperry/Class%20Readings%20Scanned%20Documents/Intro/Yuan.pdf |archive-date=Dec 22, 2024}}</ref> However, according to an article by NPR, there was once a time when the political leaders of Mosuo villages were in fact females.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/26/501012446/the-place-in-china-where-the-women-lead|title=The Place in China Where the Women Lead|website=[[NPR]]}}</ref> The anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday has argued that the Musuo should be considered a matriarchy.<ref>Anthropologists like Peggy Reeves Sanday favored redefining and reintroducing the word matriarchy, especially in reference to modern matrilineal societies: "matriarchies are not a mirror form of patriarchies but rather that a matriarchy "emphasizes maternal meanings where 'maternal symbols are linked to social practices influencing the lives of both sexes and where women play a central role in these practices'" Peggy Reeves Sanday, anthropologist, [http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100164210 Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy], Cornell University Press, 2002.</ref> Further, scholars have argued that while matrilineal arrangements are the normative pattern, domestic arrangements still vary geographically and by family circumstance.<ref name="tandfonline.com"/>