Women at the center : life in a modern matriarchy / Peggy Reeves Sanday.
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2002.
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Table of 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.