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Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy / Peggy Reeves Sanday.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca, NY ; London : Cornell University Press, c2002.Description: xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0801440041 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89/922 21
LOC classification:
  • DS632.M4 S265 2002
Contents:
"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.
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Books Books JST Library General Stacks DS<br>History of Asia DS 632.M4 SAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 112237
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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.

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