communities-subcultures

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The Society That Never Needed Divorce

At 2,700 metres in the Hengduan Mountains of northwest Yunnan, the Mosuo people have spent several centuries solving a problem that currently preoccupies sociologists, therapists, and divorce lawyers across the post-industrial world: what happens when romantic love is an unstable foundation for a family? Their answer — refined over generations,

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China's Secret Century-old Cheese Country

Here is a fact that will rearrange something in your brain: in 2003, scientists unearthed the world's oldest cheese, not in France or Switzerland, but in China. Buried with mummies in the Tarim Basin of western China, a 3,600-year-old kefir-style fermented dairy product was pulled from a