Change and continuity in Minangkabau : local, regional, and historical perspectives on West Sumatra / edited by Lynn L. Thomas and Franz von Benda-Beckmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomas, Lynn L.

Benda-Beckmann, Franz von.

International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Inter-congress.

Series:

Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 71.

Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Congresses.

Minangkabau (Indonesian people).

Sumatera Barat (Indonesia)--Congresses.

Sumatera Barat (Indonesia).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

347 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1985.

Summary:

Social scientists have long recognized many apparent contradictions in the Minangkabau. The world's largest matrilineal people, they are also strongly Islamic and, as a society, remarkably modern and outward-looking.

Focusing on Minangkabau proper, and treating several adjacent areas as well, this collection examines the resilience and adaptability of the Minangkabau in the face of outside political and economic pressures and of distortions in social science and legal theory. Individual studies address issues of kinship and other forms of social organization, ideology, and political and economic life. Together, they emphasize the integrity of Minangkabau social forms while revealing fascinating patterns of continuity and change in Minangkabau culture.

This collection will be of particular interest to anthropologists specializing in Southeast Asia, but it will also be important reading for those concerned with the issue of change and continuity in the third world generally.

Contents:

1. Themes and Issues: Editors' introduction / Lynn L. Thomas, Franz von Benda-Beckmann 1

2. The Relevance of Minangkabau Studies for Anthropological Theory / P. E. de Josselin de Jong 19

Part I. Kinship in Local and Supra-Local Organization

3. Mother, Mother's Brother, and Modernization: The problems and prospects of Minangkabau matriliny in a changing world / Joanne Prindiville 29

4. Rethinking Matriliny: Decision-making and sex roles in Minangkabau / Nancy Tanner, Lynn L. Thomas 45

5. Siblingship and Social Structure in Negeri Sembilan: Perspectives from myth, history, and the present / Michael G. Peletz 73

6. Implications of Merantau for Social Organization in Minangkabau / Mochtar Naim 111

Part II. The Rantau, Islam, Political History, and Ideology

7. Myth and Reality: Minangkabau institutional traditions in the rantau / J. Kathirithamby-Wells 121

8. Islam, History, and Social Change in Minangkabau / Taufik Abdullah 141

9. Islamization in Kerinci / C. W. Watson 157

10. Political History and Social Change in Minangkabau: Information from literary works / Umar Junus 181

Part III. Politics and Economics in Historical Perspective

11. Economic Constraints, Social Change, and the Communist Uprising in West Sumatra (1926-27): A critical review of B. J. O. Schrieke's West Coast Report / Akira Oki 207

12. Transformation and Change in Minangkabau / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann 235

13. Commercialization and Change in Minangkabau: a re-examination of the historical watershed / Joel Kahn 279

14. The Impact of the Indonesian Independence Struggle on Minangkabau Society / Audrey Kahin 303.

Notes:

Papers presented at a symposium held in April 1981 in Amsterdam, under the auspices of the Inter-congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

Bibliography: page.

ISBN:

0896801276 :

OCLC:

11842502