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Webs of Power
Women, Kin, and Community in a Sumatran Village
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2000
Summary
Webs of Power offers a fresh perspective on women in Southeast Asia. Focusing on one rural Minangkabau village, the book provides vital insights into the gendered processes of post-coloniality. The Minangkabau living in West Sumatra are the largest matrilineal group in the world. They have intrigued generations of scholars because they are matrilineal and Islamic. By exploring the contestations and accommodations women and men make with state and Islamic ideologies, Webs of Power discloses the processes at the heart of globalization as well as the complexities of kinship and power in a rural agricultural community. The book challenges conventional thinking about matriliny, showing the prominence of senior women in all aspects of village life.
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Copyright year
2000
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9911-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4689-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
221
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Preface No access
Families in the Village No access
Note on Orthography No access
List of Abbreviations No access
1 Introduction: Matriliny, Gender, and Power No access Pages 1 - 21
2 Village Currents in West Sumatra No access Pages 22 - 50
3 Senior Women and Their Houses No access Pages 51 - 82
4 National Discourses and Daughters' Desires No access Pages 83 - 108
5 Senior Women and Ceremonial Strategies No access Pages 109 - 130
6 Ceremonial Practice and the Ideology of Rank No access Pages 131 - 156
7 Controlling Labor, Controlling Kin: Village Farm Relations No access Pages 157 - 182
8 The Politics of Power No access Pages 183 - 194
Appendix: Notes on Minangkabau Kinship No access Pages 195 - 197
