Several researchers who had received their training in social anthropology in the West did fieldwork and wrote dissertations on the culture and customs of the Naxi and Moso. New books on Naxi culture appeared, and the first conference on Naxi culture was held in Lijiang in 1987. When in the latter half of the 1980s it again became possible for foreign researchers to do fieldwork, the study of the Naxi and Moso was reactivated. In these studies, the authors remain loyal to Marxist anthropology and base many of their explanations on the theory of social stages. A more open policy towards academic research during the 1980s allowed Zhang Chengxu et al (1980), Yan Ruxian and Song Zhaolin (1983), and others to publish detailed studies on the Moso family system. Many of these data were treated as internal documents and were, therefore, rarely accessible for researchers not employed by the government. Some data concerning the kinship system of the Moso were collected in the 1950s as part of a social historical survey of minorities in China. Of particular importance is Anthony Jackson's Na-khi Religion (1979), in which persuasive hypotheses are presented from the perspective of social anthropology on the relationship between Naxi and Moso, and on the formation of the pictographic scripts. Nevertheless, due to the amount of research they had done, the study of the pictographs and the manuscripts continued. After the Liberation of 1949, religious performances of the dto-mba were prohibited and Rock was expelled from China. Rock and Li Lin-ts'an, two scholars who also edited several dictionaries of the pictographs. During the first half of the twentieth century, many of the manuscripts were translated both by Joseph F.
The Naxi pictographic script was introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century by European missionaries. Their society is characterized by matrilineal kinship and a duolocal marriage custom (Besuchsehe). The Moso, considered to be a branch of the Naxi, live to the northeast of the Naxi. The Naxi of northwest Yunnan are known for their ritual specialists or priests named dto-mbJ who have practiced their rites using texts written in pictographs. Maps, b/w photographs, pictographs (by Mu Chen), bibliography, index, names of ceremonies, ritual chants and dances. Naxi and Moso Ethnography: Kin, Rites, Pictographs. OPPITZ, MICHAEL and ELISABETH Hsu, Editors.
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