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Matriliny and Migration - Evolving Minangkabau Traditions in Indonesia (Paperback)
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The Minangkabau, who are from the mountainous region of western
Sumatra, have long been a tangle of paradoxes to the outsider.
Ardent believers in Islam - a partially orientated religion - the
Minangkabau are one of the few remaining matrilineal groups in the
world. A well-educated and enterprising people, they continue to
uphold a seemingly archaic kinship system. They have always been
highly mobile, yet their strong sense of ethnic identity is rooted
in their homeland. Focusing on Minangkabau matriliny and its
relation to migration, Tsuyoshi Kato has written a comprehensive
and authoritative study of the society, history, and traditions of
this complex people. Studies of the Minangkabau since the middle of
the nineteenth century have often indicated that matriliny is
giving way to a bilateral or even patrilineally inclined system.
Kato, however, asserts that the matrilineal system is surviving,
owing to Minangkabau mobility. Exploring matriliny's evolution in
response to changing times, he studies the reasons for the
tradition's resilience. Kato adopts an historical approach,
claiming that a static analysis can capture only part - or
seemingly contradictory parts - of a complex and changing culture.
He examines different types of migration that characterizes three
distinct historical periods: village segmentation - a migration to
establish new settlements - which took place up until the
mid-nineteenth century; circulatory migration to small towns and
markets by individual males, a distinguishing feature of the period
from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s; and the more
permanent Chinese migration, in which nuclear families leave the
village for larger cities, a pattern thatcontinues today. Kato
bases his analysis on his extensive field work in Sumatra and on
such varied evidence as recent census data and Minangkabau proverbs
and legends. Matriliny and Migration, now brought back to life as a
member of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, is a
balanced account of change and continuity in a society. It will
appeal to readers interested in Southeast Asia and to sociologists
and anthropologists studying the family, urbanization, mobility,
and the question of ethnic identity. TSUYOSHI KATO received his PhD
degree from Cornell University. He taught at Sophia University,
Tokyo, from 1977-1979, when he joined the faculty of Kyoto
University.
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