Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy /
Sanday, Peggy Reeves,
Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy / Peggy Reeves Sanday. - Ithaca, NY ; London : Cornell University Press, c2002. - xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.
"Nature is our teacher". Adat matriarchaat as a world view. The divine queens -- Discovering Belubus. Looking toward Mt. Merapi. Diversity in daily life -- Celebrating life. Discovering Adat Ibu. Eggi becomes Minangkabau. Exchanging husbands and bananas. Negotiating marriage. Getting married. Songs and the performance of desire -- How men uphold matrilineal Adat. Being and becoming a Penghulu. Death of a Penghulu, reprimand of another -- Millennial musings. Adat in the twenty-first century. Redefining matriarchy.
0801440041 (cloth : alk. paper)
2001006790
Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
Matriarchy--Indonesia--Sumatera Barat.
DS632.M4 / S265 2002
305.89/922
Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy / Peggy Reeves Sanday. - Ithaca, NY ; London : Cornell University Press, c2002. - xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.
"Nature is our teacher". Adat matriarchaat as a world view. The divine queens -- Discovering Belubus. Looking toward Mt. Merapi. Diversity in daily life -- Celebrating life. Discovering Adat Ibu. Eggi becomes Minangkabau. Exchanging husbands and bananas. Negotiating marriage. Getting married. Songs and the performance of desire -- How men uphold matrilineal Adat. Being and becoming a Penghulu. Death of a Penghulu, reprimand of another -- Millennial musings. Adat in the twenty-first century. Redefining matriarchy.
0801440041 (cloth : alk. paper)
2001006790
Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
Matriarchy--Indonesia--Sumatera Barat.
DS632.M4 / S265 2002
305.89/922