Matriliny And Modernity

Author : Maila Stivens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100099113X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matriliny and Modernity written by Maila Stivens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia. Written from a feminist anthropological viewpoint, it considers how far both the colonial and post-colonial remakings of matrilineal cultural practices within modernity have left women with what many western feminists would call a degree of social agency if not autonomy. Maila Stivens looks critically at the appropriateness of such judgements, at the same time reflecting on the ways that western knowledge production and the continuing importance of images of exotic matriarchies in the western imagination have shaped debates about such societies. As well as appealing to those with an interest in issues of gender-and-development, Asian Studies and women’s situation in modernising societies, the book’s explanation of the past and present of relatively more egalitarian gender arrangements also contributes to wider debates about causes of sexual inequality and the possibilities for gender equality.

Author : Miho Ishii
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000740919
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Spirit Worship in India written by Miho Ishii and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizsäcker. First, it examines the relations between būta worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in būta worship with the rise of mega-industries and environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society.

Author : Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339915
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elite Malay Polygamy written by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite Malay women’s polygamy narratives are multiple and varied, and their sentiments regarding the practice are conflicted, as they are often torn between personal and religious convictions. This volume explores the ways in which this increasingly prominent practice impacts Malay gender relations. As Muslims, elite Malay women may be forced to accept polygamy, but they mostly condemn it as women and wives, as it forces them to manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of polygamy from a husband able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent; a husband that is married but available.

Author : David Murray Schneider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520025295
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matrilineal Kinship written by David Murray Schneider and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART 2: VARIATION IN MATRILINEAL SYSTEMS: 10. Descent-Groups of Settled and Mobile Cultivators. 11. Descent-Groups among Settled Cultivators. 12.Descent-Griup among Mobile Cultivators. 13. Variations in residence. 14. Variation of Interpersonal Kinship relationships. 15. Variation in Preferential Marriage Forms. 16. The Modern Disintegration of Matrilineal Descent Groups. PART 3: CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISONS. 17. Aberle, David F.; Matrilineal Descent in Cross-cultural perspective.

Author : Kumie R. Marak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditions and Modernity in Matrilineal Tribal Society written by Kumie R. Marak and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological study of Garo people of Meghalaya, with special reference to their matrilineal kinship, judicial power, and customary law.

Author : Tim Bunnell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400754825
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia written by Tim Bunnell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical perspectives from four Asian countries: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and includes a wealth of insights that both critique and expand popular notions of the rural-urban divide. The volume is relevant not just to Asian contexts but to social scientific research on population dynamics more generally. Rather than deploying a single study to chart national trends, three chapters on each country make possible much more complex perspectives. As a result, this volume does more than extend our understanding of the interplay between cities and hinterlands within Asia. It enhances our notions of rural/urban cleavages, connections and conflicts more generally, with data and analysis ready for application to other contexts. Of interest to diverse scholars across the social sciences and Asian studies, this work includes accounts ranging from rural youth real estate entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, India, to social development in Aceh province in Indonesia, devastated by the 2004 tsunami, to the relationship between urban space and commonly held notions of the supernatural in Thailand’s northern city of Chiang Mai.

Author : Michael G. Peletz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187452
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Modern written by Michael G. Peletz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do states use them to consolidate power, build nations, and shape a modern citizenry? These are among the questions addressed in this book, which not only enhances our understanding of diversity among and within the world's Muslim communities, but also provides ethnographic, historical, and transnational perspectives on contemporary Islam in the shifting landscape of a strategically important region of the world. Focusing on Malaysia, which has sustained more rapid development than probably any other Muslim nation, Michael Peletz explores the culture, political economy, and history of Islamic courts. He demonstrates that they are centrally involved in the creation and policing of new Malay-Muslim identities (such as middle-class urban dwellers) that the state sees as the basis for a national polity that will be highly competitive. He also shows how and why Islamic courts are key sites in struggles involving ethnic and religious groups, social classes, political parties, and others with a major stake in defining Islam's role with respect to the maintenance of sovereignty and the achievement of modernity and civil society in an age of globalization. Peletz deepens our knowledge of Islamic political development in a country very much concerned with forging an Islamic modernity viewed by its leaders as a viable alternative to Western-style modernization.

Author : Peggy Reeves Sanday
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489068
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women at the Center written by Peggy Reeves Sanday and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first went to West Sumatra in 1981, intrigued by reports that the matrilineal Minangkabau--one of the largest ethnic groups in Indonesia--label their society a matriarchy. Numbering some four million in West Sumatra, the Minangkabau are known in Indonesia for their literary flair, business acumen, and egalitarian, democratic relationships between men and women. Sanday uses her repeated visits to West Sumatra in the closing decades of the twentieth century as the basis for a new definition of matriarchy. From the vantage point of daily life in villages, especially one where she developed close personal ties, Sanday's narrative is centered on how the Minangkabau conceive of their world and think humans should behave, along with the practices and rituals they claim uphold their matriarchate. Women at the Center leaves the reader with a solid sense of the respect for women that permeates Minangkabau culture, and gives new life to the concept of matriarchy.

Author : Huma Ahmed-Ghosh
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438457758
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Muslim Women written by Huma Ahmed-Ghosh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies. This book resists the homogenization of Muslim women by detailing the diversity in their lives and by challenging the dominant paradigm of Arabized Islam as the sole interpreter of the faith. Though much has been written on the Middle East, there is a huge gap in research on Asia, which has two-thirds of the world’s Muslim population. These essays reveal that the lives of Muslim women are impacted not only by Islam but also by local politics, class, religion, and ethnicity. Through ethnographic research and other methodologies, the contributors describe how economic globalization, construction of sexualities, and diasporic expectations shape women’s lives. The book focuses on women’s negotiations and resistances to global, national, and local patriarchies in an attempt to empower themselves. “This book’s greatest strength is the diversity of its scope, both geographically and thematically, without reducing Muslim women to particular roles and/or identities.” — Bahar Davary, author of Women and the Qur’an: A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics

Author : Louise P. Edwards
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087518
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Asia written by Louise P. Edwards and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for understanding the situations of women in Asia today