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

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Sanday, Peggy Reeves

Publication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002Description: xv, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0801440041

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'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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