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Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy
- Title
- Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy / Peggy Reeves Sanday.
- Author
- Sanday, Peggy Reeves.
- Publication
- Ithaca, NY ; London : Cornell University Press, c2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 02-13680 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 270 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "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.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-13680
- ISBN
- 0801440041 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001006790
- OCLC
- 48383319
- Author
- Sanday, Peggy Reeves.
- Title
- Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy / Peggy Reeves Sanday.
- Imprint
- Ithaca, NY ; London : Cornell University Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-13680