- Lamu Gatusa
Lamu Gatusa is an associate professor at the Yunan Academy of Social Sciences, in
Kunming ,Yunnan ,China . He is also awriter , and a three-time winner ofChina's Minority People Literature Award .His studies have focused on his own ethnic group, the
Mosuo , and especially theirfolk song traditions. In the early 1990s, carrying a large, oldJapan ese tape recorder, he went into the Mosuo mountain villages to collect folksongs and published the only book about Mosuo folk songs in China. In 1997 he finished the translation of ashaman 's recitation of the entire oral history of the Mosuo people, which it took him two months to record. In 1999, he published a book called "Mosuo Daba Culture," in which he collected and translated important oral literature of Mosuo indigenous religion Daba Religion. In recent years, Lamu's works have shifted towards critiquing the tourism and modernization of Mosuo culture. He has published the article "Mosuo People Do Not Live in the Western Exotic Fascination" and nine other articles in academic journals.Lamu has also collaborated with TV programs or ethnographic documentaries on Mosuo culture: "The Story of the Kingdom of Women", "Stories of Shangerila", "The Path to Heaven" and "Sun Rises, and Sun Sets."
He is a member of the
Chinese Writers’ Union andthe Chinese Minority Nationalities Writer’s Union ; and is a co-founder of the [http://www.mosuoproject.org Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Development Association] , a non-profit organization dedicated to both preserving and increasing awareness of the Mosuo culture.
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