Research Catalog

Title

Visible women in east coast Malay society : on the reproduction of gender in ceremonial, school, and market / Ingrid Rudie.

Author

Rudie, Ingrid.

Publication

Oslo : Scandinavian University Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1994.

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Description

xi, 337 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Change and continuity in gender relations in a rapidly developing society is the main theme of this book. The author has undertaken two periods of fieldwork in Kelantan, an Islamic stronghold in Malaysia, the first in 1965 and the second more than twenty years later. The purpose of the follow-up study was to investigate the change in gender relations especially concerning the women who, in 1965, owned, inherited, bought and sold land, dominated the bazaar market and held a firm grip on family economy and family politics. The book offers an important methodological and theoretical contribution to the study of gender relations and the construction of personhood in a complex and changing society."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Oslo studies in social anthropology.

Subject

• Women > Malaysia > Social conditions
• Women > Malaysia > Economic conditions
• Sex role > Malaysia
• Women > Malaysia > Kelantan > Social conditions
• Sex role > Malaysia > Kelantan
• Muslim women > Malaysia > Kelantan
• Women > Malaysia > Kelantan > Economic conditions
• Muslim women
• Sex role
• Women > Economic conditions
• Women > Social conditions
• Frau
• Islam
• Sozialer Wandel
• Vrouwen
• Sociaal-economische situatie
• Dagelijks leven
• Femmes > Malaisie > Conditions sociales
• Femmes > Malaisie > Conditions économiques
• Rôle selon le sexe > Malaisie
• Gender roles
• Malaysia > Kelantan
• Malaysia
• Kelantan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-323) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction. The history of the project -- Ch. 1. Re-visiting -- Ch. 2. Some further theoretical issues -- Ch. 3. The content of houses -- Ch. 4. Transformations in the extended family -- Ch. 5. Constructions of marriage -- Ch. 6. Ritual work of person and community -- Ch. 7. Trade as a source of living and a way of life -- Ch. 8. Schoolgirls through six decades -- Ch. 9. Making persons: from interaction to identities -- Ch. 10. Making environments: from identities to interaction.

ISBN

• 8200219194
• 9788200219194

LCCN

94239743

OCLC

• ocm31026590
• 31026590
• SCSB-2061209

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library