Sanday, Peggy Reeves <br/><br/>
Women at the center :  life in a modern matriarchy / 
Peggy Reeves Sanday 
 - Ithaca :  Cornell University Press,  2002 
 - xv, 270 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>'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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801440041  RM120.40 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.<br/>Matriarchy--Indonesia--Sumatera Barat