Transformations of the marriage Yugur

The Yugur have still a type of marriage that he remembers to studied in societies who qualify some of matriarchal, and that is called as they are called, they are characterized by the importance of the woman in the society. This marriage, called marriage of walk between the Moso, since the woman was taking lovers to his will, who neither were remaining in his house had not even rights on his descent, the marriage is called between the Yugur for "covering the head".

This marriage for covering the head was a simple ceremony in which the woman was dressing herself of fiancée and was going away to a yurta, where it had absolute freedom of looking husband or lover, never being submitted to the man (as in other cases of the Yugur), but being always the head of the family.

When a lover was taking they could live together forever, or separate and to look another lover.

Out of this marriage, relic the one who knows if of a last time, the Yugur have a familiar organization similar to those of his neighbors.

The family is the base of his society. Formerly they were taking a life as shepherds organized in tribes with a complement of agriculture. Every family, of approximately 4 - 5 persons, was living in a yurta. Between they were dividing the economic works.

They had no discrimination against the daughters since often they were adopting the son-in-law the family.

Every person had three names. That of milk, which they were giving him on having been born. The religious name happened in the ceremony of peeling him for the first time, when every relative was cutting a hair tuft and it enumerates the gifts that it was doing to him, leaving a tuft in the center. It was naming him then lamaísta. The third one is the intellectual name, which takes on having become major.

They have freedom to choose his fiancés. At the time of marrying they realize two celebrations, one at the fiancée's and other one at the fiancé's. From the house of the fiancée they accompany them singing half of the way. Then they all sing some of the traditional songs, especially the Sanamak.

The marriages were realized out of the clan, but inside the same social class.

The wedding was starting at the fiancée's, where he was dressing himself of married. It continued the following day at the fiancé's, who was finishing with the newlyweds eating together a lamb leg. The third day the fiancée was returning to his house, to return to that of his husband after one month to be fulfilled or on having had his first son.

In the last times as the families of the fiancées were asking for many gifts, marriages were celebrated by exchange. By means of those that I join and sister they were marrying the same family.

Sometimes girls were adopting the rich ones, to extract money to the husband when they were marrying them.

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