Webs of power : women, kin, and community in a Sumatran village / Evelyn Blackwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackwood, Evelyn.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Social conditions.

Minangkabau (Indonesian people).

Matrilineal kinship.

Women, Minangkabau--Social conditions.

Women, Minangkabau.

Matrilineal kinship--Indonesia--Sumatera Barat.

Sex role--Indonesia--Sumatera Barat.

Indonesia--Sumatera Barat.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2000.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Webs of Power offers a fresh perspective on women in Southeast Asia. Although the book focuses on one village, it provides vital insights into the gendered processes of post-coloniality. By exploring the contestations and accommodations being made in rural villages by both men and women, Webs of Power reveals the processes at the heart of globalization as well as the complexities of power that circulate between women and men in a rural peasant society.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Families in the Village; Note on Orthography; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Matriliny, Gender, and Power; 2 Village Currents in West Sumatra; 3 Senior Women and Their Houses; 4 National Discourses and Daughters' Desires; 5 Senior Women and Ceremonial Strategies; 6 Ceremonial Practice and the Ideology of Rank; 7 Controlling Labor, Controlling Kin: Village Farm Relations; 8 The Politics of Power; Appendix: Notes on Minangkabau Kinship; Glossary; References Cited; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-214) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41046-1

979-82-16-24837-8

0-8476-9910-2

1-4616-4689-8

OCLC:

854976377