Matriliny And Modernity

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Matriliny And Modernity

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Author : Maila Stivens
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-15

Matriliny And Modernity written by Maila Stivens and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-15 with Social Science categories.

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.

Traditions And Modernity In Matrilineal Tribal Society

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Author : Kumie R. Marak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Traditions And Modernity In Matrilineal Tribal Society written by Kumie R. Marak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Law categories.

Ethnological study of Garo people of Meghalaya, with special reference to their matrilineal kinship, judicial power, and customary law.

Matrilineal Kinship

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Author : David Murray Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1961

Matrilineal Kinship written by David Murray Schneider and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Social Science categories.

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.

Elite Malay Polygamy

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Author : Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-09-14

Elite Malay Polygamy written by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-14 with Social Science categories.

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.

Modernity And Spirit Worship In India

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Author : Miho Ishii
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-06

Modernity And Spirit Worship In India written by Miho Ishii and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-06 with Social Science categories.

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.

Maternities And Modernities

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Author : Kalpana Ram
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-02-26

Maternities And Modernities written by Kalpana Ram and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-26 with Social Science categories.

A wide-ranging, comparative study of concepts of motherhood.

Matriliny In Meghalaya

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Author : Pariyaram Mathew Chacko
language : en
Publisher: Daya Books
Release Date : 1998

Matriliny In Meghalaya written by Pariyaram Mathew Chacko and has been published by Daya Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Social Science categories.

Papers presented at a one-day seminar.

Islamic Modern

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Author : Michael G. Peletz
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05

Islamic Modern written by Michael G. Peletz and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Social Science categories.

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.

Women At The Center

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Author : Peggy Reeves Sanday
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2002

Women At The Center written by Peggy Reeves Sanday and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

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.

There Comes Papa

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Author : G. Arunima
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

There Comes Papa written by G. Arunima and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Inheritance and succession categories.

This is the first study to examine Nayar matriliny as a historical phenomenon. Kerala is the only place in the world where a kinship system was outlawed! The book analyses the reasons for the abolition by the colonial state and lays bare the differences between early twentieth, late twentieth and mid-nineteenth century forms of matriliny. This is the first historical work in India on matriliny.